#megachiroptera

[carnalreincarnated]

"How can you tell it's a boy?"

This is not the best photo I took at the Wilhelma botanical and zoological garden in Stuttgart, but it's definitely the one that brings me the most joy.

[scrunklybathypocrite]

I was at the Łódź Zoo with friends, and we saw quite a few species of bats.

There is Zjawa Płowa (Eidolon helvum)

Rudawiec nilowy (Rousettus aegyptiacus)

Rudawka czerwono szyja (Pteropus lylei)

Bonus

Love them!

Thanks to @h0stile-exe and @pamaizai for photos

[gravelyfiendish]

Megachiroptera (Flying Fox) embryos

[0catnaps]

lazy fruit bat is fine with Dole™ Cup o’ Peaches too

[tangledwing]

Fruit bats hanging from a tree in Gayndah, Queensland. Horses at a number of Queensland and New South Wales locations have been infected with a 'hendra' virus carried by bats which is thought to be spread to horses via half-chewed fruit, or water and food contaminated by bats' droppings Photograph: JOHN WILSON/AFP/Getty Images

[uwmspeccoll]

Another Brehms #Baturday

For this #Baturday, we celebrate the megabats or Megachiroptera. Members of this family are also known as fruit bats and contain the aptly named Flying Foxes. These herbivores are larger than insectivorous bats and play an important role in forest ecology by helping to distribute seeds and pollen. This beautiful chromolithograph and engravings are from the 1882-84 edition of Brehms Thierleben.

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[citizen-naught]

[florukelele]

Megachiroptera