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Published: 2019-01-23 19:20:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 34899; Favourites: 1678; Downloads: 0
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As #WingedWednesday is back again, I chose to draw a bat. I think they are cute and we should love them more. Especially the fruit bats, who are so ravenous for sweet fruit. What is your favorite weird creature?Related content
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Hahaha... Platypuses and echidnas are some of the oddest creatures, I will give you that!
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Odd is good. I also like pufferfish.
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'Can't touch this... ta-na-na-na...'
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Wow the amount of details you put into the wings puts my work to shame. What an adorable Flappy McDogface.
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Thank you! Flappy McDogface is indeed a new concept for me. 
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I made that one up to be honest.
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This so sweet
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Honestly, apart from the huge spiders (and a couple of other things actually trying to kill you) I think Australia is one of the most wonderful place on the planet.
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Yes. It is a great country. We came here from the cold North East of England many years ago.
Fruit bats can be a nuisance to the farmers and, at the moment a small town is inundated with them - roosting in the trees in the park and trees around the neighbourhood. Unfortunately they carry what can be a deadly disease so they are not very popular there either. They are a protected species so the locals are not allowed to scare them away. We recently had an extreme heatwave, with temperatures in excess of 40C. The poor bats were falling from the trees through heat exhaustion. It was very sad. Hundreds died.
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I've seen online that the heatwave seems to be an ongoing business still. Is it getting any better now, or are my sources right and it's still a huge problem at this moment?
I can imagine the bats would be a nuisance for the local farmers since they feed off fruit... but deadly disease? We're not talking about rabies here, right? In Europe people usually fear touching bats because they are afraid they might bite; local ones feed off animal blood, so they could carry rabies. But fruit bats are a totally different story...
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They are still having a heat wave down South. We are thousands of kilometers away from that though. Our heatwave subsided and we have just been through a huge flood disaster which was caused by a monsoon trough which didn't seem to want to move on 
Fruit Bats are also known as Flying Foxes:
environment.des.qld.gov.au/wil…
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Whoa... How come I never hear about this in European news. I would really like to get more world-wide reports on this kind of things, it sounds terrible, and people knowing about it could result in sending some sort of supplies and help. I am really sorry to hear about this, it really sounds like a natural disaster. I hope you weren't affected directly by this. So much for 'there is no global warming' fans. I hope they change their minds about climate change, this doesn't sound like a normal seasonal occurrence.
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aaaww so cute!! I absolutely love bats! You did a good job rendering their cute lil face, the fur also looks really fluffy and cute!
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Thank you! That's really nice of you!
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Yeah, they savagely much on fruit.
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The gleam in his eyes really gives a sense of innocence.
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