Today Alecia and I decided to get a healthy dose of zoological goodness, so we headed to the Perth Zoo.
It was an exceedingly hot day, but that unfortunately didn’t deter the crowds. We headed to the nocturnal house (as did a noisy group of teenagers) to see the ghost bats being fed. I’ve never seen most bats feed, let alone ghost bats. I think I’d always envisaged them catching their prey on the wing, but these captive ones are quite happy to land on the ground, grab a dead mouse in their mouth, take off, hang upside down from the roof and stuff the mouse into their mouth using their knobbily little wrists. I didn’t want to flash them, so I didn’t get any photos.
Other highlights of the day were seeing some radiated tortoises procreating (and informing the kid next to me that his belief that they had the hiccups was false – they were in fact having sex) and hand-feeding a lemur.
Radiated tortoises having sex, or at least trying to
A lemur
