This is not a quoll. It is a ghost bat. Bats look weird enough normally but if you photograph them from this angle, backlit, they’re even weirder.
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This is not a quoll. It is a ghost bat. I doubt this photo will be as popular as the other one.
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This is not a quoll. It is a ghost bat, Australia’s only carnivorous bat.
Taking a photograph of a ghost bat in near darkness is tricky. Thin depth of field and longish shutter speed are OK for chuditches that sleep a lot, but ghost bats are constantly moving around. This image was just a case of narrowing down the variables (lighting, focus, etc) to something favourable then holding down the shutter release while crossing my fingers.
A bit of backlight would have been nice but you can’t have everything.
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This is not a quoll. It is a ghost bat. I have watched them eat mice head-first. Mm. Brains.