#mastiff bat

[all-mammal-creechur]

Black Mastiff Bat Molossus nigricans

Found in Central America from southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala to Panama. It is very flexible in the use of roosting structures in cities, provided that they have small holes, crevices, or narrow spaces. The high foraging efficiency, the tolerance to environmental light, and the remarkable vocal plasticity of M. nigricans might be additional factors explaining the success of this species in urban landscapes.

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[transgender-chiroptera]

Mastiff bat, via

[todaysbat]

Livin’ Large: Western Mastiff Bats - Bat Conservation International

With a wingspan of almost two feet, the elusive western mastiff bat is the largest bat in the United States.

Meet the largest bat in the United States, the Western Mastiff Bat (Eumops perotis).

[toyoll]

🦇BATS🦇BATS🦇BATS🦇

I just love them all so much!! ;0;

Microbats have such charming faces (megabats also!). Their little, fuzzy nugget bodies and big ol' personalities get me every time. I very nearly became a chiroptologist, until I realized that I have nowhere near the kind of focus needed to make it through years of schooling.

Maybe not my finest composition, but definitely one I'm happy with!

[lichen-thr0pe]

🍁First day of Autumn 🍂

[spidermilkshake]

Started doing some to-scale size references for Redwall-verse species, including some speculative ones (and corrected identifications, such as Jacques's few infamous instances of "crested lizards"... those are newts, buddy).

All the creatures in this series are obviously much less tiny or gigantic in proportion to each other than their real-life inspirations. Kinda got to do that to make a building useful for both small mice and massive badgers and otters!

Here we get our first examples of sizes that the birds come in! I very much took into account that birds often look bigger than similar-sized mammals and in fact often have quite a bit less mass than a same-sized-lookin' rodent due to the fluffy feathers (The sparrow here, despite fluff taking up the same space as an average mouse, actually would be a bit smaller and would weigh probably only half as much). So you see the very smallest category among the bird species will be even a bit smaller than the smallest creatures that have a more anthropomorphic treatment--which are the small amphibians beyond any doubt. I included the three newt species which have either appeared or would definitely be present based on geography... and also one non-newt salamander species that I would have just found very neat to appear somewhere, the Alpine Salamander. Which is, oddly, a viviparous species due to its very... alpine home! Also need to have something which is clearly labeled "salamander", since the confusion with "newt" and lizards seems bizarrely omnipresent not just in Redwall, but in public knowledge. Y'all don't know nearly enough basics about the difference between reptile and amphibian (you're doin' better than many Redwall characters if you even know there's a difference!).

On this page, Newts are without exception classed into "Vermin", and I would speculate other salamanders would be lumped into that as well. Of the large bats here, I have done some speculation and think that the Greater Horseshoe Bat and the Greater Noctule--being predators of small vertebrates and passerine birds respectively--would get classed into Vermin as well. The Mastiff bat and the small birds shown here are considered to belong to class "Goodbeast" (though notably there are other bird species that would rival the ones shown in size which would get the "Vermin" class, such as Starlings).

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mastiff (Dog-Faced) Bat Vessel.

Date: A.D. 200-850

Place of origin: Central Andes, North Coast

Culture/Period: Moche people, Early Intermediate period

Medium: Ceramic, slip

[all-mammal-creechur]

Kalinowski's Mastiff Bat Mormopterus kalinowskii

It is native to Peru and northern Chile. Relatively little is known about the species, but it is thought to be common in its range. It is sometimes seen in urban areas.

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