m from the philippines and my hobby is hunting,one time around i shot a Bat, i think it's about 10 inches, and i really want to preserve it,the taxidermis here is very expensive, can anyone teach me how to preserve the bat?
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I'm assuming you're talking about the indigenous fruit bats or fruit foxes there. You possibly COULD card the wings by pinning them out on a piece of cardboard and freezing the bat for over a year (this will allow a crude type of freezedrying) but the entrails should be removed and replaced with pillow fill first. Still, with the high humidity in PI, I'd think a freeze dried critter would rehydrate and end up stinking and rotting away eventually.
Fill it like Geo said, [tan the bat, dry presevative is iffy]. card the wings out and when dry coat with fin-flex or Modge Podge. I have one I did 10-12 years ago and he's still fine.
Not to be arguing but are you sure we're talking about the same animal. These things are huge and I'm assuming that the nose to tail measurement. They are bigger than wharf rats or tree rats and their wings spread up to 18-24 inches. Just wondering where you got one here in the states?
And Mis posted my response, I do NOT have one of those, entirely differnt specie, I never even saw one of those and wouldn't know what it was if I were to, thankyou George, and my apologies