I like to keep my eyes to the ground as I walk from the carpark towards the office. There are, from time to time, interesting things to be seen. Dead things, usually. Like dead shrews and snakes, and sometimes really gross sights.
This is the second common fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) foetus that I’ve come across at the same spot, under the batty corner of the office block where the bats hang from the rooftop ceiling beams by day. Looks freshly-aborted, unlike the first one which was being over-run by ants by the time I got to it.
This one’s in a more advanced stage of development, somewhere between stages 20 and 22 according to this embryonic development chart. Its placenta is still attached.
I’m keeping it pickled for the time being, in a vial with it lying on its back and wings outstretched. Kinda brought to mind this series of disturbing images. All dead stuff.
(Keeping images thumbnailed so as not to irk the squirmish!)
