Having just found (and linked) the source, that is a Grey-Headed Flying Fox.
"Photographer Ofer Levy spent several days in Parramatta Park in New South Wales photographing the bat's extraordinary drinking behavior. "At dusk, it swoops low over the water, skimming the surface with its belly and chest," he says. "Then, as it flies off, it licks the drops off its wet fur." To photograph this in daylight, Ofer had to be in the right position on a very hot day, with the sun and the wind in the right direction, and hope a bat would be thirsty enough to risk drinking."
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Date: 2012-10-26 06:25 pm (UTC)... That's a fruit bat, right? Why on earth did it dive bomb a pond?
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Date: 2012-10-26 06:30 pm (UTC)"Photographer Ofer Levy spent several days in Parramatta Park in New South Wales photographing the bat's extraordinary drinking behavior. "At dusk, it swoops low over the water, skimming the surface with its belly and chest," he says. "Then, as it flies off, it licks the drops off its wet fur." To photograph this in daylight, Ofer had to be in the right position on a very hot day, with the sun and the wind in the right direction, and hope a bat would be thirsty enough to risk drinking."
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Date: 2012-10-27 02:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-27 02:43 am (UTC)