Hot Bat

Rick Rycroft

Associated Press

A Grey Headed Flying Fox skims a creek in an effort to soak his body with cooling water as temperatures reach 45 degree Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in Sydney's western suburbs Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003. Up to a thousand from a colony of about 15,000 of the vulnerable fox-faced bats were unable to cope with the heat and died.

Rick Rycroft, "Hot Bat," in POYi Archive, Item #33564, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/33564 (accessed November 23, 2024).