that is clearly a human adolescent in a costume
The giant golden-crowned flying fox, one of the largest bats in the world. It is endemic to forests in the Philippinespic.twitter.com/27yx6Ps7I7
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What are the white bits?
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He’s eating a banana
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So we literally have a banana for scale. Holy moly, that thing is huge.
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I mean there’s literally a human right there... but bananas work too
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But the bat is so far out in front of the guy, it’s hard to know if it’s just perspective size. Although I suppose it could be eating a tiny banana...
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photo is misleading, bat is close to camera - "the megabat’s actual body length is not comparable to the size of an average adult human. According to Animal Diversity, these megabats only grow to a little over a foot in length and weigh less than 3 pounds"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/megabat-photo/ …
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I love how people always want to challenge you.
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If you actually opened that link or did your own research, you would see that those measurements are correct. Wing span can be as long as 4-5.7 ft but the actual body isn’t that big, as you can clearly see in this picture taken directly from the linked article. 1.5-2 ft tops
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We need to keep up the struggle for bats. They're so misunderstood.
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next time i’m venturing deep into the forests of the philippines
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Kinda makes me wonder if reports of the "Jersey Devil" or the "Mothman" really stems from somebody's attempt to smuggle one of those into the US to be a pet, only for it to escape and scare people at night unintentionally
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Hmmm... maybe y'all have a Jersey Devil alright... very rare, almost extinct? Notice the latin name of one giant megabat
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Instead of just standing there maybe run like hell?
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Nah, the most dangerous thing about fruit bats -- so long as you're not harassing them -- is that they can carry diseases that are extremely dangerous to humans. And this one's obviously been either raised by people, or trained to come close and accept food from them.
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