The Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas), also known as the False Vampire Bat is a bat endemic to Australia, named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings that makes it appear ghostly at night.
The Ghost Bat is the only carnivorous bat in Australia and is also one of the largest microbats in the world. It is largely insectivorous but will also consume frogs, lizards, and other small animals, including other bats. It hunts by sight as well as with echolocation. After killing its prey with its powerful bite, it carries it to a feeding perch to eat.
Ghost Bats inhabit northern Australia, from the east to the west coast. They roost in caves, mines, and tunnels in small colonies, usually of less than a hundred bats.
Australia has now changed the protection levels for the Tasmanian devil, the world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, from vulnerable to endangered.
The devil population, which is found on the island state of Tasmania, has been decimated by a facial tumour disease.
The number of Tasmanian devils in the wild is thought to have fallen by up to 70% since the mid-1990s.
The new conservation status will give the animals greater protection under national environment laws.
A hungry frog tucks into its breakfast – a fellow amphibian.
The matchbox-sized green-stripe normally eats bugs but this one swallowed a green tree frog.
It's an amphibious assault as one frog makes a meal of another
Wildlife fan Kerry Roberts captured the moment in the garden of her home in Townsville, Queensland.
She said she heard a frog squealing and assumed that a snake had got into her garden was was eating one of the hundreds of amphibians that live near her house.
“But when I went over for a closer to look I saw it was a frog trying to eat another one.”
ufowatchdog.com Interviews Filmmaker, Writer And UFO Hoaxer
Australian UFO hoaxer, Chris Kenworthy
UFO Watchdog has a very interesting two part interview with Chris Kenworthy, the man behind the recent Australian UFO Wave 2006 Website and the “Faked” UFO videos [link].
It’s interesting to note that Chris is not only a Filmmaker, Writer and UFO Hoaxer – he is, or rather was, a part-time (minor) crop circle maker here in Wiltshire where I’m now living.
Incidentally, Crop circles in Wiltshire have been very thin on the ground this year.
I heard a rumour (in a pub that is) that the “circle-makers” where having a year off – to make a point to the researchers and skeptics that the circles are nothing more than man-made!
I and Cryptoworld sit firmly in the middle (on the fence) when it comes to the question of whether crop circles are real (whatever real is) or man-made.
It’s blazing-hot here in the UK today (Sunday), with temperatures in the 30°c range. I am about to head out for the afternoon, but thought I would quickly write about this interesting web-site I just found. Australian UFO Wave has some very interesting video footage of resent UFO activity in Australia.
I’m guessing with a title like Australian UFO Wave that it woun’t just be limited to sighting from this year?
If you are interested, there is also have a Podcast service, so you can watch/download the movies on your favourite podcast app (i.e. iTunes/iPod).
Tasmanian Tigers are said to be roaming the outskirts of Portland
Four new sighting of the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) have been reported in the last three months on the outskirts of Portland, Southern Australia. These along with the recent discovery of rock paintings in Western Australia depicting what appears to be several thylacines, suggest the Tasmanian Tiger used to roam across most of mainland Australia, and poses the question of whether the Tasmanian tiger is really extinct!
Cryptoword would love to hear from anybody who thinks they have seen a Thylacine in the last 12 months, or believes they know where they can been found, as we are thinking of planning an expedition to Australia and Tasmania next year, and would like to spend some time searching for the Tasmanian Tiger. Contact Cryptoworld.
Tasmanian tiger ’sightings’
TASMANIAN tigers are said to be roaming the outskirts of Portland.
Four sightings of one of the world’s most fabled creatures have been reported to an independent researcher in the past three months.
The last sighting was in early May by a Portland resident, Anthony Ersello, who said yesterday he saw the strange dog-like animal sitting in the middle of the Princes Highway on the outskirts of town near the Shell service station.
