Ruffling Wings

A colony of Egyptian Fruit Bats has caused a stir. They live in a wildlife park in south-east England.

Keepers believed that all the bats were females as it's very hard to tell the genders apart in this species. It turned out that they aren't all female, because eight of them have given birth. So there was at least one male in the original fifteen.

This was a complete surprise to them. They are now going to look again and determine how many males there are.

I think it is great that they got it wrong. This means that there are more of the mammals and that isn't bad at all.

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