Comments on: batty http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/ "what is this - a rapist's paradise?!" Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hellen http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/comment-page-1/#comment-3832 Hellen Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:29:23 +0000 http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/#comment-3832 okay so I found the image on this hygiene & toileting page from "the new updated second edition handbook for wildlife carers involved in the care of orphaned baby, and the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of adult flying-foxes in Australia by dave pinson" http://www.stickeebatz.com/HTML/hygiene%20&%20toileting.htm The image basically illustrates how to train an orphaned grey-headed flying fox to groom itself. the photo itself is credited to a "Mandi Griffith", who, as far as I can tell, is an Australian zookeeper who wrote the "Grey-headed Flying Fox Husbandry Manual". So there you have it! okay so I found the image on this hygiene & toileting page from “the new updated second edition handbook for wildlife carers
involved in the care of orphaned baby, and the rescue, rehabilitation,
and release of adult flying-foxes in Australia

by dave pinson”

http://www.stickeebatz.com/HTML/hygiene%20&%20toileting.htm

The image basically illustrates how to train an orphaned grey-headed flying fox to groom itself.

the photo itself is credited to a “Mandi Griffith”, who, as far as I can tell, is an Australian zookeeper who wrote the “Grey-headed Flying Fox Husbandry Manual”.

So there you have it!

]]> By: jenn http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/comment-page-1/#comment-3087 jenn Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:47:47 +0000 http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/#comment-3087 thanks everyone for commenting! @mich: yeah, he's not getting very far with the diabolical act when his face is so disarmingly cute @christina: I KNOW @derek: does this have something to do with australia by any chance? thanks everyone for commenting!

@mich: yeah, he’s not getting very far with the diabolical act when his face is so disarmingly cute

@christina: I KNOW

@derek: does this have something to do with australia by any chance?

]]> By: Derek http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/comment-page-1/#comment-3085 Derek Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:44:45 +0000 http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/#comment-3085 Fran will tell you that I've had a real connection with a fruit bat before. Fran will tell you that I’ve had a real connection with a fruit bat before.

]]> By: christina http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/comment-page-1/#comment-3084 christina Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:03:00 +0000 http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/#comment-3084 TOO CUTE. LOOK AT IT'S BIG EYES! TOO CUTE. LOOK AT IT’S BIG EYES!

]]> By: mich http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/comment-page-1/#comment-3080 mich Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:10:47 +0000 http://www.thebittermelon.org/2009/04/17/batty/#comment-3080 he's trying to look all diabolical with those veiny and vicious looking wings! how can anything look that threatening when being groomed with a toofbrush? he’s trying to look all diabolical with those veiny and vicious looking wings! how can anything look that threatening when being groomed with a toofbrush?

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