We love foxes, and we love bats. When we realized that Cairns had a colony of flying fox bats, we sought them out. It wasn’t hard—you can hear them from a few blocks away. And while we thought they were pretty visibly obvious—you know, Chihuahua sized animals with yard/meter wingspans swooping over head—we were consistently amazed by how many people only glanced up at them after wondering what we were taking pictures of. In one case, a woman who’d been walking along, perfectly safe, looked at David panning his zoom lens along with a bat, looked where he was pointing, and shrieked and cowered on the ground for nearly 5 minutes before scurrying off in a crouch like she was in a war zone. Most people were delighted by their chance glance up, however.
