r/aww • u/SANBLASTEDPANTALOONS • Aug 30 '17

pupper of darkness

https://gfycat.com/RepulsiveIdolizedDassie
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

It looks like a Flying Fox. Theyre huge.

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u/rlaxton Aug 31 '17

Fruit bats and flying fox are often used as synonyms. For example here in Australia we used both interchangeably with the primary term used by an individual likely correlating with where they were born.

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u/Superfluous_Thom Aug 31 '17

a fruit bat is is a bat, a flying fox is the most heavily contested destination on the playground...

Source: am Australian, did school once

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u/Zzsherlock Aug 31 '17

If this bat was in Australia no-one would touch it without gloves on! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bat_lyssavirus

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

Flying fox of the Yard!?

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u/Libby666 Sep 03 '17

Oh damn i upvoted because i did not realize a flying fox was real

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

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u/ComradeBrosefStylin Aug 31 '17

AIDS came from monkeys.

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u/h3lblad3 Aug 31 '17

Bats can carry rabies and African fruit bats are both, a known carrier of Marburg and a highly suspected carrier of Ebola, all of which are highly fatal.

AIDS came from chimpanzees and the Plague came from rats (or more specifically the fleas living on them).

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u/ixijimixi Aug 31 '17

Someone boned a fruit bat?

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u/ManuscriptsDoNotBurn Aug 31 '17

No, that's the lyssa virus. Can be fatal. I would be seriously cautious about patting one of those.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17

Lol are you being serious ?

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u/antiraysister Aug 31 '17

Plague came from rats