Horsfield's fruit bat Horsfield's fruit bat Horsfield's fruit bat ("Cynopterus horsfieldii") is a species of megabat native to South East Asia. It is named for Thomas Horsfield, an American naturalist who presented the type specimen to the British Museum. Horsfield's fruit bat is a medium-sized megabat, intermediate in size between flying foxes and pygmy fruit bats. Adults weigh around , and have light-grey to brown fur, with a reddish-brown or orange mantle around the shoulders. In some males, the mantle extends across the chest, and the fur is often brighter in colour than in females. The rim of the ears and the skin
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective 128). Strange Fruit embraced, what normative society considered, "non canonical bodies" (Tayeb: 128). Brown and Black bodies were marginalized and othered because they were see as "unable to fit" they did not fit the western cultural ideal so therefore they were not acceptable. Ethnic queers were seen as unable to attain a true gay identity because they did not fall under the conceptualized "white standard" of being queer (Tayeb: 129). Brown bodies were considered bodies that could not "properly be gay." Most importantly Strange Fruit recognized the ridicule ethnic queers faced within the parameters of their own culture. It is