Holy Batman!

Cute

Is that a Versace?

That's photographic trickery.

I vant to suck your . . . . .

The giant golden-crowned flying fox was photographed in the Philippines and has since gone viral across social media.

The large fruit-eating bat is native to the Asian archipelago and can have a wingspan up to 1.7m.

I'd literally shit myself if I saw this creature or anything close to it in real life. I don't even like those little fruit bats & they eat mosquitoes

Please, that's photoshopped. You think those simple folk would something ominous like a giant bat leave unharmed in such a village setting?

It's almost like the Internet was invented yesterday!

R7 it's not Photoshop, dumbass. Forced perspective, aka one of the oldest photographic tricks in the book.

It's a question of perspective, none of the existent species of bats is as big as it seems the bat on the pic

It rooks dericious!

They often grow that large feasting on plump villagers.

Made in China?

r9. Time will tell who the dumbass really is.

Grandpa, we talked about all this hanging around the house before...

I’d wondered where Giuliani got off to.

I fucking hate those things!

See how the wing clashes with the baskets hanging from that beam? There is no forced perspective involved. That's full on photoshop.

No, it's not photoshop, R19. It's a trick of perspective. The bat is not as large as it appears.

Fruitbats and flying foxes eat, amazingly, fruit are fairly large and fly out during the day and sleep at nights. There is occasionally some zoological discussion over whether they and the small, insectivorous night-flying bats may have evolved separately.

Apparently it's a pic of a giant golden-crowned flying fox.

[quote] But mind you the giant golden-crowned flying fox is not a regular-sized bat. They are one of the biggest bats in the world with a huge wingspan that gives it the ‘human-sized’ appearance.

In other words, the picture was a clever example of a forced perspective, something photographers often use to deceive viewers.

R7 We think yikes, get that thing away. The Chinese think mmmm dinner.

My first thought was corona

Aww it's so cute.

Wrap it up, I'll get it to go!

It’s cute and does not deserve to be vilified. They are important to the food chain and help combat pests. If you leave them alone they leave you alone.

Has anybody made any suggestions that this is an example of forced perspective?

I had a bat fly right into my face and neck the other night. Am I going to die?

Bats are cute and they eat mosquitoes. They nibble fruits and have fuzzy babies. In conclusion, go bats.

Here's another pic for size.

OMG! I'm not afraid of much, but I'd be afraid of that.

R29, You might want to submit your iPod Playlist right now before it is too late.

I love the flying Fox bats. They have adorable faces. Like puppy dogs with wings.

More like Man-Bat

I hate myself for laughing as hard as I did at r11. It just hit my funny bone.

Yes r31 is a good pic to show the real size of these bats. They are a good size, but not that big.

I thought it was a man in a leotard and cape sporting a mask from Party City.

What's on the megabat's iPod:

Batman Theme by Neal Hefti

Batdance, Prince

Bela Lugosi's Dead, Bauhaus

I live close to a large park in the UK and we get loads of common pipistrelle bats in summer in the garden.

They are tiny, about the size of a large moth, eat loads of flies etc so everybody like them

Is he still a private investigator by day?

Whatever happened to Bat Boy from the old [italic]Weekly World News[/italic]?