One of my friends has started asking me for the link to this thread periodically. Some of these are just too good not to share.
Love the fruit bat. One of the best perks of vet school was getting to go to the Lubee center and ‘work with’ the fruit bats. Not a lot of actual work, but the tour was fantastic. Nothing like walking through cages full of beautiful, fox-faced bats with six-foot wingspans, hanging so that their eyes are level with yours. Just watch out for the bananas hanging down on plastic chains! (Enrichment for the bats; they have to use their thumbs to reel in the chain to reach the banana.)