I like that! Electrocucians !! Battus flyingfoxicus electrocuciana. Has to
be a product of the PSC eh David? And then today the one from Richard must
be a Pelicanus conspicillatus electrocuciana - same sub, different family.
Oh, and those flags put up in the Lockyer were mainly to deter a low flying
Bill Jolly - or so he told me.
Tony.
At 10:31 15/03/00 +1000, you wrote:
>I think that it is physically impossible for flying foxes to hold on to 2
>wires at the same time with their feet; their legs simply are not long
>enough. D. Hansman, a bat freak (batter?) in Townsville says that:
>
>when flying foxes come to roost they fly over the perch, grab it with their
>back legs and belly flop, swinging down into a hanging position. They are
>electrocuted when their wingtips or thumbs hit a second wire and the
>elctricity passes through them. Sometimes a bat is badly burned but
>survives and is left clinging to the wire, unable to fly. A lot of
>elctrocucians in Tsvl seem to be in September when naive juvenile Little
>Red Flying Foxes arrive in the city from out bush. Another problem period
>is when female Black FFs are carrying babies and, burdened by the load,
>look for clear perches to leave the babies. In many cases the mother is
>killed but the baby is unharmed, still clinging to its dead mother. Each
>year a few baby Blacks are found abandoned by their mothers on powerlines,
>but the fate of the mother is usually unkonwn.
>
Tony Russell,
Adelaide, South Australia
phone : 08 8337 5959 , o/s 61 8 8337 5959
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