pasuhupi flying fox

Part of Speech n2
    • flying fox
      • animals, mammals
      • Example 4274:
        A pasuhupi a paru bara a matamata pinopino kurus.
        The flying fox is black; and it looks very confusing.
        Source: Sii 10W 059
      • Example 5434:
        A pasuhupi eve a peha naovana to pasi vaavaha kurus ni nana a tootoo teve.
        The flying fox is a flying animal whose way of living is very different from that of other flying animals.
        Source: Sii 10W 058
      • Example 5435:
        A pasuhupi na vaavaha ni nana tea goroho bara tea vahuhu teve. Na gorogoroho nana tea roava ore paa tagune tea tauravi, ore paa taneo tea vaavihi ore bon be vaavihi nana. Ore takaha batana be goroho. Be tau goroho na iku ni nana bona bua moonae teo pea naono. Ore paa moomono bona suin nae bono pakapaka teve ore paa goroho.
        The flying fox has a special way of sleeping and giving birth. It sleeps during the day and wakes up in the evening, then it starts travelling around, so that it is dark when it is travelling. Then dawn breaks when it is going to sleep. When it is going to sleep, it hangs itself with its two feet on the branch of a tree. Then its wraps its body is its wings and sleeps.
        Source: Sii 10W 060-064
      • Example 5436:
        Tea vahuhu teve he saka paku haana ta hai. A pasuhupi na nao nana tea rasuu vai to dao raara bona veava. A veava to saka bin tagava ori. A naono a bebeera koa to sun rori. Teebona to pasi no vahuhuu a pasuhupi. A pasuhupi pasi no buno binubinu bata nom tea paka na naono ore antee be vahuhu. Be vahuhu vakavara ore paa buno vahari bono beiko teve ore paa rakoto tea girigiri ne sinariori. Teebona to pasi tei tamuana bata nom a bua si beiko ei tea bua girigiri nae. ore antee bea bua beiko beera, ore paa kaokahi bene sinariori.
        For giving birth it does not make a nest. The flying fox goes to the forest that we call jungle. The jungle is the forest that has not yet been cleared. Only very big trees stand there. There the flying fox will give birth. The flying fox will move around in the leaves of the tree until it gives birth. When is has given birth, it moves her children so that they stick in the armpits of their mother. There the two little children always stay in its two armpits, until the two children are big enough to leave their mother.
        Source: Sii 10W 067-075
      • Example 5437:
        A tabaan tea pasuhupi a vua ruhu, bai, ohita, kariapa bara dosiri. A gaga teori he amaa nama ruene vai to agaa batana tea maa vakarapi to dao raara bona siroaka. A goroho teori he, na kavara hana gunaha rori tea naono vai to dao raara bono ruhu.
        The food of the flying fox are the fruit and nuts of the ficus, mango, galip nut tree, myrtle and the burckella tree. They drink from the water puddles that float in the forks (and) are called siroaka 'mirror'. When they sleep they all hang down from the tree that we call ruhu ficus.
        Source: Sii 10W 076-078

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  • See also:
    • naovana animal living on the land (generic term); e.g. flying fox; bird; insect
    • subaaka flying fox
    • vihoko flying fox
    • girigiri2 armpit
    • veava jungle; bush that has not been cleared