Yoda Lookalike

[wombat2u2004]

A tube-nosed fruit bat with an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda has been discovered in a remote rainforest.

The bat, along with an orange spider and a yellow-spotted frog are among a host of new species found in a region of Papua New Guinea


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz1SPgDxH5o

[Marigold2]

It's YoYo his older brother.

[happylabs]

Oh that bat is cute!

[phesina]

What a cutie!!!

[pomtzu]

ICK - bats!!! Yeah - I know that they are beneficial and eat lots of bugs, but they freak me out! I practically have to dodge them after dark when I take the pups out for a potty call, since they swoop in around the outside flood lights that are on and that attract many varieties of bugs. I've started turning the lights out on the back of the house when I go out, then turn them back on again when we are safely inside.

[Karen]

Such cool looking critters, I like bats, it's always fun to see them and hope they are eating all the mosquitos who would otherwise be biting me!

[Bonny]

A tube-nosed fruit bat with an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda has been discovered in a remote rainforest.

The bat, along with an orange spider and a yellow-spotted frog are among a host of new species found in a region of Papua New Guinea


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz1SPgDxH5o

That is a cute little hairy furry critter. I wonder what the teeth look like? I bet they are razor sharp.

[Karen]

That is a cute little hairy furry critter. I wonder what the teeth look like? I bet they are razor sharp.

Probably not, as he's a fruit bat!

Fruit bats diet contains mostly just fruit and no insects or blood at all. They do tend to feed from flowers, taking a cue from the butterfly and eating the sweet nectar out of the flowers, but generally speaking a fruit bat will stick to just fruit. Now, the fruit does not always have to be whole, there are many fruit bats that love to lick the juices from crushed fruit, but if they have to, these bats do have teeth which allow them to bite through the hard fruit skins if needed.
Larger fruit bats will sometimes eat an entire fruit piece whole, for they have a larger mouth, bigger teeth and they are able to swallow a larger fruit whole. The smaller fruit bats will just hover and flap their wings in front of the fruit or flower, stealing bites from the fruit or some of that sweet nectar from the flower.