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Posted: Sat Jul 8th, 2006 03:46 am |
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| it's taken in singapore's bukit timah nature reserve...please help me to identify. Thanks! Attachment: post.jpg (Downloaded 57 times)
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Gran
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Posted: Sat Jul 8th, 2006 07:51 pm |
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| I am certainly no expert but it looks a bit more like the flying squirels that we have here than a bat
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Posted: Sat Jul 8th, 2006 10:26 pm |
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Megachiroptera? My eyes can't see it well enough so I can't distinguish. Given its size maybe it is the Malayan Flying Fox which I believe is seasonal in singapore but the ears and eyes don't seem quite right for the latter. Here are some other Megabats in singapore mangroves for reference:
http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2121.htm
Below are two different Giant flying Squirrels. Note the one thing common with many squirrels, a long bushy tail.
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Posted: Sun Jul 9th, 2006 05:45 am |
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| thanks for the reply!!...now i knew it's more like a squirrel...tot it's was a bat..until i saw your photos..but this squirrel is different..as it dosen't seem to be very active...i managed to take this photo because it was sticking on the trank for so longggggg...
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Posted: Sat Jan 27th, 2007 10:47 am |
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It is not a bat and ain't a flying squirrel either.
The animal on the picture is a colugo also called a "flying lemur" . It has nothing to do with lemurs (which only live on Madagascar) and it has also nothing to do with bats or flying squirrels. The colugos (there are two species I believe) make up their own order as the Dermoptera (Skin Wings).
Scientist long believed that megachiroptera and colugos where strongly related orders, possibly by having a common ancestor. But the latest research on DNA-relations between bat species show that megachiroptera possibly evolved from a few microchiroptera species. Meanwhile colugos remain a mystery....
More picture of Colugos?
Colugo or Flying lemur in Google Images
Colugo or Flying lemur in Flckr
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Posted: Sat Jan 27th, 2007 01:45 pm |
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Thats it! Mystery solved. Thanks Erik!
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Joe Spencer
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Posted: Fri Jun 29th, 2007 12:45 am |
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I just watched Discovery HD on my first HD set and they showed the colugo. It was simply amazing and quite similar to our flying squirrels in the way that it glides and floats with its skin as a parachute. The reason it was on the trunk of the tree for so long (post above), is that not unlike bats, the colugo is basically nocturnal and rests during the day.. Quite stunning:
 
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