Do you like bats?
Where are the feathers?
>>5060738they're neat
>bats comprise about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with over 1,400 speciesthey seem to be very succesfull as far as mammals go even if you barely see any of them. but here in my area at dawn you can sometimes spot a few fluttering around
>>5060738Hell yeah these dudes are cool
flight is one of the most broken abillities, and these lil guys represent us as mammals against all of the other unholy creatures that are able to fly
>>5061100Yeah, the bats that have the heads of rats/mice/ferrets/foxes are great. I just hate the hyper-evolved bats with heads out of horror movies.It's interesting how most animals that evolve in darkness for too long eventually evolve into ugly abominations.>>5061072Bats are more aerodynamically efficient than birds but also less metabolically efficient than birds.Bats are also more maneuverable in flight than birds.I would also say that bats on average are more intelligent than birds.https://www.livescience.com/1245-bats-efficient-flyers-birds.htmlThis is pretty impressive because bats only evolved what? around 50 million years ago and primitive birds were around 150 million years ago.
Only fruitbats who basically don't look like bats at all.
>>5061128>>5061132beauty lies in the eye of the beholder
guuuuuuuh
never realised how truely fucked up looking alot of bats are, why even design horror movie monsters if you can just copy this shit
>>5061138The huge ears wrapped around the pinprick eyes almost symbolize the discarding of one sense for another...
>>5061136That's exactly what a bat would say :)
>>5061138Yep, they look so ugly that I'm afraid I could get a disease from just having one fly over me.Bats are like the deep-sea fish of mammals.
>>5060738I like the Spectral bat because it eats small ugly bats, birds and mice. It's the largest carnivorous bat.
>>5061136this bat is uglier...
>>5061148
alright so what's the evolutionary advantage of turing your face into a distorted ugly vagina lookin ass abomination?
>>5061136You can tell this dude FUCKS.
>>5061173It concentrates, filters and shapes sonic beams for echo location.https://phys.org/news/2009-07-mystery-extraordinary-nose.html
As long as they don't randomly fly into my face at night I'm okay with them around the property.
>>5061181damn so their entire face is like a satellite disk
No, they have way too many fucking species.Also, as a south americans, I have to worry about vampire bats, fucking rabies spreading, plague carrying motherfuckers.
>>5061261Yeah, exactly. That's a pretty good analogy
>>5061128>It's interesting how most animals that evolve in darkness for too long eventually evolve into ugly abominations.Makes perfect sense, removes the evolutionary pressure to not look like shit in order to smash box
>>5061283Yeah, the only visual measure of genetic fitness that remains with bats is facial symmetry. As ugly as they are, they're still symmetrical. Just like tapeworms...
>>5061173To haunt human dreams.
>>5061181interesting article
thanks for the thread batbro I'm really getting into bats now. did you know that the largest european bat hunts songbirds and eats them mid-flight?https://phys.org/news/2025-10-europe-largest-birds-mid-air.html
>>5061336That is so fucked up. I'm sorry, but I can't support something as profoundly ugly as the Greater noctule bat eating a robin. That just makes me upset. It's the same kind of revulsion I got from reading an old ship sighting of a giant squid drowning and slowly eating a baby whale calf. Or knowing that there's a giant worm that parasitizes the fetuses of Sperm whales. Or that video footage I saw of a tiny blind baby rat being surrounded by huge lice and ticks that were covering it to the point you couldn't even see it. Just pure evil shit. Pure evil.
Pipis
>>5061355I get the parasite stuff, that's also revolting to me, but animals just eat each other all the time, circle of life and shit
>>5061357https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtimPA-mbK4>>5061358Mmm, chicken tendies...
>>5061358I mean, as far as bats go that isn't a particularly bad looking bat. And I am impressed at its hunting. But I would feel way better about something like a carnivorous flying fox eating birds. It's just my personal bias. I mean the circle of life is also a 50 year old pedophile SA'ing a baby to death. I don't like it when something I perceive as lessor or unworthy is predating or parasitizing something better than itself.
