Rodrigues fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis) in the awkward process of crawling toward a piece of fruit that had fallen to the floor. At one point, in 1979, the population on Rodrigues (the only place they are found) had dropped to 79 individuals. Now up to ~20,000! I would really, really like to visit this island (would take me 43 hours to get there from Philadelphia).
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