At 07:58 16/12/2001, Ralf Hildebrandt sent this up the stick:
>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.

We have several colonies living in the CBD of Sydney, in some of the
parks. They make a real mess of the paintwork on your car if you happen to
be under the flightpath :)

They scare the living crap outta you when you are walking home from the pub
at night and they fly about 6 feet over your head, too

Cheers,
Rob

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