Pictures and facts about the Dyak fruit bat

Dyak fruit bat

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Genus : Dyacopterus

Facts about the genus Dyacopterus, the Dyak fruit bat

Among the facts to be treasured from Jones' book: that the male Dyak fruit bat is the sole mammal to use its nipples for a purpose other than the erotic, by giving suck to its young; that the village weaverbird, in Africa, rejects most cuckoo eggs, but since it was introduced to America, seems to have lost its ability to recognize them; that the female hyena possesses a clitoris of a size equal to her male partner's penis, and for intercourse she "rolls it back, rather like a man might roll up the sleeve of his shirt"; that the male gorilla, on the other hand, has a "guilty secret": his one-and-a-half-inch member. (Full text)