Fruit bat

Freaked out by a fruit bat!

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November 11th 2011
Last night we had a C-R-A-Z-Y fruit bat experience. Fruit bats aka megabats aka flying foxes are HUGE (it's worth checking out the wikipedia article). Their wing span is almost 5 feet (150cm). For real. They are unbelievably cool and unbelievably freaky. We see them every night swooping around street lights and landing in trees. They make really cool (read: scary) high pitched chattering ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more