Yeah, I omitted the whole description. Some flying foxes have a
wingspan of five feet. Not like our lovable Mexican free-tailed bats
here in Austin, Texas. If you are under the bats protection, no
mosquitoes.

Jeffrey

Quoting Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de>:
> 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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