The US Military Created A Bomb Out Of Bats! (No, Seriously)
World War II ended in the culmination of the Manhattan Project and its apocalyptic atomic bomb. What most people don’t know is that a very different type of weapon was also in development: a bomb filled with live bats.
little-king-trashmouthOooohhhhh mmmyyyyy goooodddd!!!!!!!
I need to ride on this! I love fruit bats so much I am going to cry it’s so beautiful!dude! my chariot awaits!!!
which bat does the scoopy doopy
AnonymousBasically any bat that eats insects does the scoopy doopy, i.e. scoops up insects using their tail membrane as a net.
Some bats also do the flappy slappy.
Basically whatever works.
TAIL MEMBRANE
New bat species has fangs you won’t believe
What big teeth you have, my dear! The better to eat insects with—and make one’s own ecological niche. Scientists have uncovered a new bat with stupendous canines in the rainforests of Lao PDR and Vietnam, aptly naming it Hypsugo dolichodon, or the long-toothed pipistrelle. Describing the new species in ZooTaxa, the researchers say the bat is most closely related to the Chinese pipistrelle (Hypsugo pulveratus), which is found across much of eastern Asia. However, the new species not only sports longer fangs than its relative, but is also bigger altogether.
“The new bat species was trapped by Charles M. Francis and Antonio Guillén in 1997. The conspicuous differences could be seen nearly [on] first sight, but the description of the species awaited until 2014,” lead author, Tamás Görföl with the Hungarian Natural History Museum, told mongabay.com. It took 17 years to describe the new bat because researchers had to gather more evidence and compare specimens, including ones housed in museums around the world. Genetic research also clearly proved the fanged bat was, until now, unknown to science.
Photo by: Judith L. Eger
These baby bats swaddled like little burritos are way cuter in the full video here.
TEENY TINY BAT BURRITOS
Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)
The spectacled flying fox is a megabat that lives in Australia’s north-eastern regions of Queensland. It is also found in New Guinea and on the offshore islands including Woodlark Island, Alcester Island, Kiriwina, and Halmahera. The head and body length is 22–24 cm. The spectacled flying fox’s natural diet is rainforest fruits and flowers. Spectacled flying foxes typically live to be around 12 to 15 years old.
