A "Mormon Helping Hands" volunteer paints a window frame at Kelly School. Other volunteers planted bushes
and trees, and painted walkway lines (most work was done
by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, with some Kelly friends).
(These pages about volunteers are sponsored by PSL cryptozoological research)
Copyright
2009 Jonathan Whitcomb
Window Painting-2: Volunteer Service for Kelly Elementary School in Compton
Bats and Ropens of Papua New Guinea
Including sightings of apparent living pterosaurs
Visitors
to Australia, Papua New Guinea, or other islands of the Southwest Pacific are sometimes shocked at the giant bat called “Flying Fox.”
There’s no need to fear, however, for these are fruit
bats, not vampire bats.
1) Ropens glow at night;
fruit bats do not.
2) Ropens are said to eat fish, clams, and carrion; fruit bats do not.
3) Large ropens have wingspans between ten
feet and fifty-five feet;
fruit bats are much smaller.
4) Large ropens have tails longer than ten feet; fruit bats
do not.
5) A ropen was seen holding itself upright on the trunk of a tree;
fruit bats hang upside down.
6)
The ropen’s mouth has been described like that of a “crocodile”
and the long beak of a bird; The mouth of
the Flying Fox looks
like . . . well, a fox.
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Pole painting at Kelly School