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
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
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.
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.
>>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
>>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
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...
They are awesome creatures, fellow mammals that fly and echolocate. I'm terrified of rabies though so I like to avoid them as much as possible.
HELLOwhere do i go to read and learn more about bats in general? any good text books? do you also follow white papers as well to learn more about them? or just good books that tell more about the different type of bats and their ecological impact and function.
>>5060738yeah in elementary school our school gym was really old and hat a hollow ceiling in which bats lived and atleast every 2 weeks a bat came out of the ceiling during pe and we just spend the whole leeson watching it till the grounds keeper came to get rid of it.good times
>>5061357kiwi batswhen i was kid they would hang in the branches of a mock pepper tree in the frontyard. i could spend the hours of dusk looking at them little furry buggers just hanging from the tree, napping before flying off to hunt mosquitosgood times, good times
>>5061152>Nyeheheheh
>>5061128>Bats are more aerodynamically efficient than birdsBut less aerodynamically efficient than dragonflies, which can hover and fly backwards and sideways because of their two pairs of wings.
>>5061152i like it
>>5060738Pretty much. Even at 62 my hearing is weirdly good to around 17kkz in the left ear, 16khz in the right, pretty much as it was when I was 35. Little brown bats were a thing where I lived at the time, and if one had pretty good eyes and ears one could clearly hear the soft rapidly intermittent "tsst" of them, even as they were echolocating at far higher frequencies. One got into a neighbor's apartment, and in the process of capturing it, I had an unusually close look at it, both in terms of sight and sound. Very alien and very cute.
>>5062683I used to live a few minutes drive from a nature preserve where in August one could hear little brown mantises singing very loudly at 16kz in hundreds of thousands, One of my favorite memories is locating one of them--not an easy feat--in a little shrub--in Oak Ridge Prairie Park.
>>5062524>62>4chanturn back. go fishing. go to the gun range and tell everyone glocks suck. drink whisky and leer at people. man what are you doing here this is a website for perverted children that wish they could marry cartoon cat/fox women.
>>5060738sure do!
>>5061138that's his dick isn't it
they lived in my attic for years. then one day see one 2 floors down in the kitchen. grab my pond net take it outside. call animal control cause it was acting wierd. animal control sends it for rabbies testing. tell me it will take a couple weeks. calls back 3 days later and tells me it was positive we should talk to the Dr. at the hospital. hospital doctors say basically if you didn't see it fly in then you should get vaxed because sometimes they bite people in their fucking sleep they get rabbies and die without ever knowing they were bitten. they said they give rabbies shots ever fucking day without a confirmation. my son, my mom, my dad and me all had to get vaccinated. and if your fat you get bonus shots.
>>5063072sounds scary
>>5062962what kind of molars do vampire bats have?
>>5063077none
>>5063077if they infected you with some fucked up disease they wouldn't bat an eye
>>5060738Yes
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>>5061998I think I read that the risk of rabies from a bat is practically zero but I'm not sure.>>5060738I think nocturnal ones are ugly, hideous, neat creatures. I came home from the club one night, in the snow, and found a bat shivering on my doorstep. I brought it in, put it into a shoebox with some socks to warm it and drove it to the nearby bat sanctuary the next morning.They told me the hideous thing had… I forget… white nose disease? Something like that. Whatever it was called, they explained that it was a fungal infection that can lead to colony collapse so they had to destroy it, unfortunately.I'm sorry batbro (or batbrodette). I didn't mean to get you killed. : (
>>5067822White nose disease makes a bat itchy,so it can’t properly hybernate/sleep,so instead it just stays up all night shivering and losing energy.
>>5067822>drove it to the nearby bat sanctuary the next morningman I just hate it when the nearest bat sanctuary is closed and you have to drive a few extra miles to get to the second closest one
BLEH!
>*HOOOOOOOONK*>how did you know I keep the sabbath?!?!?!?
>>5070257What is that prodigious schnozz for?
>>5070349https://youtu.be/GL4aNctAuqM?si=9cPV-8xizPmBAUL-
>>5068007Of course you jest, but there are so many bat sanctuaries in my area that I had my pick of places. I chose one a little farther off from me only because I actually knew where the building is.Their website lists all of the bats currently in their care and has names for the ones that are unreleasable for whatever reason (such as being unable to fly anymore) and little profile pages for each "sky puppy" (their term).
>>5070701do you live in the bat capital or why are there so many sanctuaries?
>>5070725You'd be surprised by just how common bat sanctuaries are in the US. I know I was.
>>5060738women want himbugs fear him
>>5070752quite based, to be honest.
>>5060738yes but i don't like all the risks of rabies from them
BLEEEHAI DOANT VANT DHIS THREAT DO DIEEEE
>>5061072Why are bats classified? What secrets do they know??
