Bats

Video of Baxter in his new home

Try to imagine what this feels like… someone takes you captive, you don’t know why. You don’t speak their language and you are powerless to escape. You have no idea what they want of you, and you are terrified.

I should say that some bats are not nocturnal (out of more than 1,400 species, about 10 are diurnal, and they tend to be fruit bats).

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I have no info on the source. I searched "bat eating a banana" on the Internet and selected a cute one. Enjoy !

A minor epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus labiatus minor) with its cheek pouches full of fruit in Kenya.

Giving oversized pieces of food encourages natural behaviors within our bats since in the wild there isn't someone making sure everything is perfectly bite sized.

Numbers of long-tailed bats had been dwindling by five percent annually, but, starting in 1990, a conservation effort controlling exotic predators has turned things around, and the bat’s population has been increasing by four percent per year.

I just wanted to share that tonight your faithful mod aka me will get to go to Bracken Cave and see millions of bats fly out of it for their nightly hunt. I am so excited and wanted to share the joy. I doubt I will get any decent pics because I will be enjoying the show, but here is a picture from their Instagram.

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So in the middle of the night I heard a noise that I thought was some kind of bug. After 10 - 15 minutes I realized that whatever it was wasn't going away on it's own, so I got up to shoo it away. This little guy was on the floor screaming at the slider door being harassed by my two cats. I don't have a chimney or attic, so I have no idea how they got inside. When I opened the door, instead of taking flight, they simply hopped out the door froggy style. Were they injured? I don't think my cats did it if so, because they mostly just seemed confused by the poor creature. And what were they doing in the house?

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Fascinating study on the symbiotic relationship that evolved in bats and viruses and explains why they are such prevalent vectors of viral disease

The picture is so cute.