Fruit Bat tunnel

Still needs more ropes and vegetation IMO.

Is this on display, or a breeding facility that is off-display?

This is on display! It is relatively new though and there are still a lot of things to grow/add!

Which species of fruit bats?

Why have they got a long trench in the middle?

@Hix I think they are Livingstones fruit bat

I think the trench is to give extra height to the enclosure for the bats to drop when they launch into flight

Very interesting hadnt thought of that. Thank you Al

the species are Livingstone Fruitbats (Having the largest captive population, and the original population brought from the comoros) and Rodrigues Fruitbats, which are also a population which was brought from the wild and described in GD book "Pink pigeons and Golden bats"

It's much more vegetated these days, and heated by a 'biomass' burner that uses soiled animal bedding (which is our old office paper shreddings to start with) and dried (via polytunnel) assorted primate droppings! Pretty cool, I think! Free fuel!

The biomass burner is very interesting... I had the chance to see how it worked and I was told that it was commonly named "Big bertha"