No, it's not a Covid-19 Mutant Bat - experts reckon it's a rare lemur

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No, it's not a Covid-19 Mutant Bat - experts reckon it's a rare lemur

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Thais were commenting in large numbers after a Shan state native living near the border with Mae Sot in north western Thailand posted pictures and a video of an unusual forest dweller. 

 

Some suggested it might be a mutant Covid-19 bat from nearby China. Bats were often in the news at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Apparently the creature is fierce and highly protective. 

 

Animal experts said it is a creature like a flying fox though it is probably a flying lemur. 

 

It can't fly and use sonar like a bat; it prefers to leap about utilizing its batlike ribbed "wings".

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[graemeaylward]

I hope that it is still alive!!!

 

[Surelynot]

We don't believe a word experts tell us in the UK

[Crossy]

I thought Lemurs only lived in Madagascar.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur

 

[Matzzon]

54 minutes ago, Crossy said:

I thought Lemurs only lived in Madagascar.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur

 

It´s been drinking too many Red Bulls.

[Enoon]

 

Photo was posted on Reddit a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIs<deleted>ingLit/comments/abqb1z/colugo/

 

It's been doing the rounds.

 

I assume it was made by a skilled "Creature" modeller.

 

 

Edited April 17, 2020 by Enoon

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, graemeaylward said:

I hope that it is still alive!!!

 

Be in Chinese soup by now

[essox essox]

lemurs are only found ON MADAGASCAR!!!

[essox essox]

Just now, RichardColeman said:

Be in Chinese soup by now

extra taste !!!

[Snow Leopard]

12 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Be in Chinese soup by now

As every Wet Market punter knows. Lemur is much better Stir Fried. 

[Snow Leopard]

Did HIV not come from eating or shaxxing Monkeys? 

[RichardColeman]

The mystery of what happened to Jar Jar Binks after Star Wars is solved

[mrfill]

I thought it was a president before the make up goes on.

[Mick501]

3 hours ago, essox essox said:

lemurs are only found ON MADAGASCAR!!!

That's so lemurist.

[Mick501]

Easy to tell that it is not in fact a lemur, by the absence of John Cleese in the photo.

[timendres]

I asked her not to upload that photo of me. I was really wasted at the time...

[Russell17au]

It's A Colugo or Gliding Lemur. It is not a real Lemur. There are many gliding mammels in different countries. Here in South East Asia is the Colugo. They are not from the bat family

[whaleboneman]

Upon very close inspection, I definitely think it's Thai.

[Puchaiyank]

It looks like a supporting character in a movie involving the devil!

[lamyai3]

Looks like a lemur who swallowed an alien that forgot to wear underpants.