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if you're a friend o' mind you'll know i'm batty for bats. so i want to share perhaps one of my alltime favorite images ever. thanks ever so much to hell hell for introducing this to me. imagine, a zombified me in bed, rheumy-eyed while i groggily check my phone (it's my routine now), and this being the first thing i get in my email. what a great way to wake up!

big props to anyone who can track down any information regarding this picture. i've tried a variety of google search terms but with no luck. hellen found it on this site but there's no backstory whatsoever. i have no idea what's going on, it's a total WTF-er.

i wish i were the guy holding this adorable creature.

ps - inspired by this photograph, i conceived a silly idea for a series of drawings i'd like to do....

Posted by jenn yin 

Comments (4)

Apr 20, 2009
I CAN HAZ BATS?
Apr 25, 2009
petran said...
years ago on broad daylight a small bat was probably shocked by a bird and clutched itself on our tent in a camping.It was smaller than the one on the picture, almost 1/3 size and very delicate. We put it in a box and released it during sunset. I held the animal in my palms. When I put it on the tent and just before it was ready to fly, it yawned . I have a picture still. Very cute but the ladies on the camping freaked out!
Aug 12, 2009
helllllen said...
I posted this to Jenn's blog, but maybe EAZB readers want to know where this toothbrush bat image came from:

okay so I found the image on this hygiene & toileting page from “the new updated second edition handbook for wildlife carers
involved in the care of orphaned baby, and the rescue, rehabilitation,
and release of adult flying-foxes in Australia

by dave pinson”

http://www.stickeebatz.com/HTML/hygiene%20&%20toileting.htm

The image basically illustrates how to train an orphaned grey-headed flying fox to groom itself.

the photo itself is credited to a “Mandi Griffith”, who, as far as I can tell, is an Australian zookeeper who wrote the “Grey-headed Flying Fox Husbandry Manual”.

So there you have it!

Aug 20, 2009
dude, insane. thanks for all the detective work! i found that book you mentioned in Google Books-- just a listing not any pages unfortunately. how wild :)

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