Chiroptrivia 2015 –
“Life is a beautiful and strange creature that appears at a window, flies swiftly through the banquet and is gone.” The Venerable Bede
and there can be few more strange and wonderful creatures than a bat. So this section is dedicated to the strange and wonderful things which make bat group members laugh, agree with or wonder at
We are lucky to have some very good photographers in the bat group. One of them Hedj Dollman is a professional photographer and his photo of this bat in care was used in the Wildlife Trust magazine
This has to be one of the weirder bats, hard To believe he is from the same genus as Mimon crenulatum
Mimon bennetti
Mimon crenulatum Photo Jude Hirstwood
Norman the brown long eared bat. Photo (c) Hedj Dollman
This incredible bat is on a ride at Detroit Zoo
Ripon Cathedral Gargoyle competition winning design. Daubentons’s Bat Gargoyle, Designed and Carved by Tom Nicholls, 2015 See more of his work at http://tomjnicholls.com/sculpture
Here’s another one. This time lurking in Barcelona
