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Topic: Tag Implication: flying_fox -> bat
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Though why a bat species was ever named "flying fox" I have no idea, this does seem to be the case. Biologists sometimes confuse me...
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furrypickle said:
Though why a bat species was ever named "flying fox" I have no idea, this does seem to be the case. Biologists sometimes confuse me...
To make it more confusing, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fox_%28cablecar%29. I don't know if Australians named those after the bat, or vice versa.
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furrypickle said:
Though why a bat species was ever named "flying fox" I have no idea, this does seem to be the case. Biologists sometimes confuse me...
Because they superficially resemble teeny little foxes with wings. On another, irrelevant note, there was a hypothesis, now discounted thanks to genetic data, that the flying foxes evolved from ancient primates instead of having the same origins as other bats did.
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