On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

> It's a flying fox, a variety of fruit bat. Quoting from the colophon:
> "People have eaten flying foxes for ages. Samoans, who call the
> flying fox <it>manu ladi</it> (animal of the heavens) use branches
> bound to the end of log poles to swat the winged delicay from the
> sky. Aborigines in Australia build fires beneath flying fox
> camps---the smoke stupefies the prey---and use boomerangs to knock
> the creatures to the ground.

I've seen some on Bali. Frightening beasts.

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