Paintin’ batties! In order: Kitti’s Hog-Nosed Bat, Painted Bat, Hoary Bat, Common Vampire Bat, Honduran White Bat, and Spotted Bat!
OH GOSH
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!!!
Bats are the second-most speciose group of mammals, after rodents. The approximately 925 species of living bats make up around 20% of all known living mammal species. In some tropical areas, there are more species of bats than of all other kinds of mammals combined.
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
The Tolga Bat Hospital: where adorable abandoned baby bats are wrapped in blankets and fed with bottles.
Normally we associate bats with being blood-thirsty, but all these cute critters want to drink is some bottled milk. About 300 bat pups are orphaned every year because their mother is ill and can’t feed them or has died from tick paralysis. These furry creatures are too injured to return to the wild and need to be nursed back to health. Pictured at the hospital, the black flying animals can be seen sucking on bottles, while they are swaddled in colourful blankets. The bats can also be seen bathing in the bathroom sink and even having their hair combed by workers at the hospital.
The Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Australia, is a community group working for the conservation of bats and their natural habitat. The volunteers care for bats who have come from hundreds of kilometres away in need for urgent care. And they also take in bats for sanctuary after they have been retired from zoos.Via Daily Mail
Awwww… So Cute!
