Interesting pictures. Actually to think about it, it is a strange behaviour. Ignoring marsupials, very few other mammal mothers carry their babies around, most
don’t have the facility, (primates often do) but flying and carrying babies is a strange combination. With the small bats, the mother carries them around only for a few days (nights actually) after birth, then leaves them in a crèche or wherever to return
to feed them. Flying foxes carry the young around. Birds don’t do it, apart from a few waterbirds but in walking or swimming.
Philip
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Friday, 2 February, 2018 11:50 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Photographing our fellow mammals
The dramatically large concentration of flying foxes at Commonwealth Park has even casual passers-by snapping away with their phones. As they fly slowly and relatively low the FFs are quite easy to photograph in flight. More of a challenge
is picking out a female carrying young. Examples below.
