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oh oh oh trick or treat!!!!! 🤲🏾

TRICK!!!! i decided to shrink some of the bats and put them in a friendship bracelet

the trick is we are now friends

#sans answers asks #halloween #trick or treat #batgirlcoded #bats :)#dc

duuuude bat icons! pallid bat icons!

#bats :)#ask

You'd be fandom-canonized as a bat hybrid

honestly? I would be SO fine with this. Ideal, even.

#ask #will-falling-fell #bats :)

#vampire bats :)#bats :)#nocturnal flyer :)

Bored of settling for horses and cats when it comes to fantastical creatures in real life? Lizards not dragony enough for you? Let me introduce you to the Megabat (ik scientists reeally need to start coming up with better names):

Firstly introducing the Giant Golden-crowned Flying Fox! One of the two existing golden-crowned flying fox species. They’re wing-span is about the height of an average human! so they’re biiig- the known bat species!

And no. They won't suck your blood. There are 3 types of vampire bats and only one that drinks mammal blood. And none of them are megabats.

But Other than being BIG™- what about them is interesting?

Megabats Cannot Echolocate.

Well some of them can... if they click their tongues but that's not real echolocation so it doesn't count.

We don't really know why... evolutionarily we know surprisingly little about megabats. Most bat research tends to be of microbats which are probably what you think of when people talk about bats. It probably has something to do with the fact that they're so big.

Megabats are also known as Old World fruit bats* because they are believed to have originated from Australasia. They live on that half of the globe and all but one species reside below the Palearctic region.

As of 2019, 4 Megabat species are extinct... but considering what's happened in the past two years-

Anyway, bats in general are endangered (specifically 208 species as of 2020)- obviously mainly due to ✨humans✨ so telling people how awesome they are! Can really only help.

Probably.

Please don't capture one and train it to be your personal puppy-dragon or something.

*(this fact is true? but also kinda confusing bc half of them are called that and the other half are called smtg else that i don't remember. so don't quote me on that or anything)

#megabats #bats :)#birdie rambles #bat facts #pray for the bats #giant golden crowned flying fox #i missed international bat day w this post #b now is good!#idefinitelydonthaveamillionotherthingswithdeadlinestomorrowthatineedtobedoingnope