Poetry Week, Day 2: Flying Foxes

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Their taxonomic order is Chiroptera, the bats,
Yet we call them flying foxes, so I’m not so sure of that.
They don’t look much like “microbats” in terms of facial features.
They may be loud and stinky, but how stinking cute these creatures!
They’re good at sight and smelling as their hearing’s not that strong.
Some grow to have a wingspan in excess of four feet long.
We find them pretty active in the middle of the day,
Tho they wait till night to eat, and then it’s fruit, not insect prey.
Reportedly, their intellect is higher than the rest,
With many neural pathways found in primates put to test.
The minute that I learned of them, they made my favorites list.
Let’s hope their many species will continue to exist!