This is a really good read about one of my favourite weird animal facts!

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Reminds me of that old joke.

What do you call a fly without wings?

Mystacinobia zelandica

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Typically, these archaic New Zealanders behave in ways the rest-of the-world team thinks truly weird.

Shots fired!

But seriously, this was a neat read. A species of fly that can’t fly, similar to bat flies in other countries except our one doesn’t eat the bat, it eats their poo instead!

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Yeah it was cool eh, I loved all the stuff about the tree and how there are always pregnant bat riders to make sure the species continues.

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