Bedfordshire Bat Group Photo gallery.

Created February 2011

Now I have got the basic website up and running, I will gradually be be moving some of the photo galleries onto wordpress . Eventually I will embed galleries on the relevant pages where they exist.

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Artebius littoratis

Artebius lituratus

We offered this Great fruit eating bat some banana, but he wasn't very impressed

Artebius watssoni?

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Jamaican fruit bat

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Great fruit eating bat

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Thomas' fruit eating bat

Artibius jamaicencis

JAmaican fruit bat

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This woolly false vampire bat wasn't very keen on being captured initially ( NB He is not a vampire)

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The same bat once it had settled down

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If you wondered why everyone handling the woolly false vampire bat with big very strong gloves, here is why. This is carnivourous bat that will feed on other bats and could take a sizeable chunk out of humans.

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If we thought this bat was a handful, he saved his best trick tiil last. No way was he going to put both legs inside the bat bag. It took several attempts to get him to co-operate. It was worse then persuading a cat into a cat traveling basket before a visit to the vet

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woolly false vampire

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All lined up in one photo. in alphabetic order left to right Carollia castanea ( Chestnut Short-tailed Bat,), Seba's Short-tailed Bat, Carollia perspicillata ( Seba's Short-tailed Bat) & Carollia sowelli (Sowell's Short-tailed Bat)

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Al llined up in one photo. in alphabetic order left to right Carollia castanea ( Chestnut Short-tailed Bat,), Seba's Short-tailed Bat, Carollia perspicillata ( Seba's Short-tailed Bat) & Carollia sowelli (Sowell's Short-tailed Bat). Getting them to stay still for this was a real challenge.