The Photos Of Roy Cunningham

This fruit bat was part of a colony hanging out (sorry) in the Rainforest House at Vienna’s Tiergarten zoo. It wasn’t until I got back from holiday and looked at this picture on a large screen that I noticed the bat’s tongue!
As it was a very hot, sunny day and the creature insisted on silhouetting itself against the glass roof, it took a fair bit of processing on this photo to get some detail into the image, without overcooking it.
Hope you like it.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II w/ Sigma 70-300mm DG OS @ 300mm; Exposure: 1/1000th sec @ f10; ISO: 1600