#Common Noctule

[loveisinthebat]

Peep the stats

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[transgender-chiroptera]

Common (?) Noctules, via

#common noctule #bat #microbat

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula)

2.) Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis)

3.) Pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus)

#bats #common noctule #eastern red bat #pallid bat

[xkuntergraux]

"Dicker", a common noctule and local wild life ambassador.

Every year during the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig you can attend a bat evening at the local cemetery.

#Wave Gothic treffen #WGT #common noctule #Bat

[todaysbat]

today's dracula daily had me wondering what kind of bat dracula might be posing as, so I looked up a few things.

Largest species in the British Isles: Noctule Bat (Nyctalus noctula) with a wingspan of 32-40cm (12.6 to 15.7 inches) Another large bat species: Serotine Bat (Eptesicus serotinus) with a wingspan of 32-38cm (12.6 to 15.0 inches), less common species found in southern England and Wales Most common: Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) with a wingspan of 19-23cm (7.5 to 9.1 inches) Second Most common: the visually nearly identical (though slightly bigger) Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) with a wingspan up to 20cm (7.9 inches)

source for above: woodland trust

Now those would be the bats that Mina considers normal sized. Now bats certainly range much larger, such as the golden crowned flying fox with a wingspan of five feet. But I don't think we need to look so far from England for a bat that Dracula might turn into that Mina perhaps would view as "giant"

the largest species in mainland Europe is the greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus), with a wingspan up to 46cm (18 in). The greater noctule bat is also one of the few bats known to eat passerine birds*, and the only species that hunts them on the wing (in flight) versus while roosting*.

It's rare in Romania, but it's there. And it looks incredibly adorable

image description: a chocolate brown bat with a silver band on one wing upside down on what appears to be either rock or wood, it is hard to tell for sure. The bat has its mouth open, displaying its teeth, including its pointy fangs. image source: wikipedia

*Aka perching birds. Think sparrows, songbirds, corvids. Passerines are a very diverse group of birds. *There may be another species of bat that also does this, the Great evening bat (Ia io) of eastern and southeastern Asia.

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[outofangband]

Mammals of Maglor’s Gap and Lothlann

Now that I’ve finished world building posts on birds for each Fëanorian realm pre Amon Ereb, I’m going through mammals next! Mammals of the March of Maedhros can be found here and my environmental world building Masterlist is here!

Maglor’s Gap was the widest break in the mountains and cliffs dividing Beleriand and the lands to the north. It lay between the blue mountains to the east and the March of Maedhros to the west. Lothlann was a wide expanse of plains to the north of the Gap. The rivers greater and little Gelion ran around the western and eastern borders.

Forest steppes: wild goat, wood bison, southern white breasted hedgehog, gray marmot, ground squirrel, dormouse, woolly hares, long eared hedgehog, gray shrews, northern hog badger, sable (rare), steppe mouse, lesser noctule (bat), wildcat, red fox, red deer

Bordering mountain fences: Caucasian Tur, mouflon, chamois, alpine pika, pond bat, marbled polecat, saiga antelope, steppe polecat, mountain weasel, ibex (rare), argali

Plains: goitered gazelle, steppe wolf, wild horse, northern water vole (by the rivers), snow vole, grey dwarf hamster, common hare, common rabbit, striped field mouse, ural field mouse, harvest mouse, mountain hare, field vole (also primarily by rivers), wild horse

World building notes:

The horse based cavalry of Maglor is one of the few details we have about this region. I headcanon that the horses in question are a mixture of the descendants of the Valinor born horses brought by the Fëanorian host as well as wild horses from Estolad, Himlad, Lothlann and the other plains regions of Eastern Beleriand.

Sheep and goats provide the majority of milk and cheese products in the Gap. Some of these species are imported from other regions like sheep from Thargelion.

Domesticated bovine are rare in Eastern Beleriand outside Thargelion and parts of Estolad. There are however wild and semi domesticated bison such as the wood bison, especially on the borders of forested and forest steppe regions. Fur, skin and bones from bison are used by both Noldorin and Avarin elves for clothing and other materials.

Wild hamsters, rabbits, hares and voles were used by a select few of Maglor’s cavalry as companions and even spies.

A regiment of foot based scouts had the sigil of a hare in the form of a light silhouette upon a black background.

#the silmarillion #fëanorians #musing and meta #beleriand #maglor’s gap #lothlann

[soulsforscrapbooks]

So while reading Dracula, I was curious about what kind of bat Dracula is transforming into.

Romania is a great place to live if you want to go unnoticed as a bat, since the country has one of the most diverse number of bat species in Europe, with over 32 different species! Two of Europe's largest bat colonies can also be found in Romania. There are however, no blood-sucking bat species in Europe (they are instead all found in Central and South America).

If Dracula wanted to hide out unbothered in England, he might choose the form of the Common Pipistrelle, which is the most common bat species in England:

But Stoker refers to Dracula's bat form multiple times as "large," and Pipistrelles are little babies, only about 2 in./5.2 cm long. What might be a better fit is the Greater Noctule Bat species:

The Greater Noctule Bat is one of the largest bats in the world, and the largest bat in Europe. It has a wingspan of 18 in./46 cm. and is one of the few bat species that eats birds. In addition, where most bird-eating bats sit and wait for a bird to fly by, the Greater Noctule Bat actively hunts them.

(Of course Dracula is very old and has had plenty of time to travel, so he could have easily vacationed in South America and decided to become a vampire bat.)

And as a small aside: bats are incredibly important to the world's ecosystems, but species worldwide are currently being infected by White-Nose Syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that is wiping out entire populations. You can go to this website to see how you can help the bats fight against this illness!

#dracula daily #animals #batty

[bonefall]

sorry if you've talked about this before, but I'm curious if clanmew have different words for different bat species? they obviously differentiate insects and birds, but bat's are harder to distinguish at a glance. cats would have an advantage with their hearing, being able to hear bat's squeaks (and I think different species make different patterns and sounds?) but like. I don't remember how many bat species there are here (I think noctule, pipistrelle, greater horseshoe, lesser horseshoe, daubenton's, whiskered, barbastelle, and serotine? I mightve missed a couple), but I love bat's so thought I'd ask. pipistrelle are the most common though I'm from the south-east of England so I occasionally see daubenton's too.

FOUR bat species! Over here in the main entry for birds, check there if you'd like more trivia on them. Clan cats count them as very special, blessed songbirds.

The ones that Clan cats have words for so far;

Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) = Popep

Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) = Ipi'ip

Long-eared Brown Bat (Plecotus auritus) = Fepfr

Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula) = Shi'po

There are four more kinds of bat, for EIGHT total in this region, that I have not yet described because I don't have good access to their song recordings (Even the main four were ass on butts to hunt down) If you have clear recordings of the songs of these four I'll add them too.

Pipistrellus nathusii

Nyctalus leisleri

Myotis daubentonii

Myotis nattereri

#Southeast England has more bat species #And more moth species funny enough #Because this region is a lot colder and further north #bats #And yeah Clan cats are better at distinguishing these because they are able to hear stuff we as humans can't #For example the Soprano Pipistrelle was only discovered pretty recently #But they've known about it for eons because its song is totally different

[moons-booknook]

Queer Animals

quick wiki read up

Animals that display homosexuality:

Primates- besides humans, many primates are gay. bonobos (fully bisexual), gibbons(rare), gorillas(common), orangutans(rare, observed in males), and even our closest relatives the chimpanzees (mostly male), have been seen (both male and female)

Birds- black swans(polyamory, males), albatross’(mostly female but also male), blue ducks(male), ibises(chemically induced), mallards(male leaves female for male), penguins(mostly male but also female), vultures(male), pigeons(both male and female, infertile eggs), flamingos(same as black swans). most of these species raise chicks together

dolphins- amazon dolphins, bottlenose, dolphins do not care behaviors: sexual, emotional connection. they are technically bisexual because of reproduction.

bison- american bison both males and females

bats- more than 20 species are gay. list: many flying foxes, Rafinesque's big-eared bat, bent-wing bat, serotine, bechstine, long-fingered, daubenton, little brown bat, noctule, leisler, pipistrelle, long-eared, barabastelle, horseshoe, vampire. //more common in males

elephants: sexual behavior, kissing, trunk intertwining, putting trunks in the other’s mouth, form companionships. present in both sexes.

giraffes: necking, caressing, courting, sexual behavior, more commonly to happen with 2 males than heterosexual partnerships.

marmots: species: olympic, hoary. more common in females. behaviors: nuzzling, kissing, sexual behavior

lions: nuzzling, caressing, sexual behavior. both male and female, though only in captivity in females as observed.

polecats: sexual behavior

sheep: 8-10% of rams are exclusively homosexual. behaviors: courting, sexual behavior

spotted hyena: mounting between both (especially female) sexes.

lizards: some whiptail lizard species are only female and reproduce parthenogenicly. they increase reproduction by courting and sexual activity to increase ovulation.

tortoise: oldest tortoise, jonathan is GAY and has been with his partner fredric since 1991!!!

incects: dragon flies (male), fruit flies, bed bugs

others: wallabies, antelopes, sea lions, belugas, bears (lol), deer, foxes, rats, domestic cats, domestic cattle, cheetahs, opossums, shrews, domestic dogs, donkeys, kangaroos, guinea pigs, mongeese, rabbits, elk, whales, goats, gazelle, monkeys, wolves, squirrels, hamsters, marmots, horses, rhinoceros, chipmunks, seals, ruminants in general, hedgehogs (long eared specifically stated on this list 😳 sonic????), martens, mocos, moose, zebra, mice, ox, porcupine, quokka, raccoons, tanukis, tasmanian devil, tigers, hogs,

#florafauna

[megabat-nerd]

Hii! I’m very happy I found your blog cuz bats are my favourite animal! Sorry if you’ve answered this before, but what’s your favourite bat? Mine is the ghost bat!!

Oh gosh, I couldn’t pick just one!! But some standouts who I have a special place in my heart for:

Any megadermatid! They just look super cool to me…

Common noctules! The first bat I ever identified in flight :]

And horseshoes, specifically greater horseshoes! There’s a colony near me!

I’m glad that you enjoy my blog, thank you for the ask!! <3

#bat #bats #animal #animals #chiroptera #microbat #mammal #zoology #ask

[loveisinthebat]

I love the creature

#Common Noctule #Bats of Europe #Bats of Asia #Bats of Africa #Bat of the day #daily bat #bat #bats #batposting #cute bats #cute animals #I love them #they bring me peace

[transgender-chiroptera]

Noctule, via Wildwoodtrustuk

#Noctule #common Noctule #i think this is a common one. they dont specify #Bat #microbat #q

[uk3d]

Voctule bat sketch | Limited edition fine art print from an original drawing. The common noctule is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.. My sketches start life as hand-drawn graphite images made on cartridge paper. I often work on these with charcoal, oil pastel or Caran d'Ache to create the look I'm after. The artwork is then scanned and finessed digitally ready for fine art printing. This process often referred to as Giclée printing uses the highest standard of printing methods to give gallery quality results that maintain all the details of the original sketch. The graphite pencils I use are Faber-Castel, the oil pastels are Sennelier and the china-graph is Caran d’Ache. The inks are pigment based archive quality (100years+). The heavyweight specialist papers I use are of the best professional quality having a wonderful surface designed specifically for fine art drawings and illustrations. Very limited editions with only ten per size printed. All artwork is signed and includes a certificate of authenticity. The A5 are 5.8" x 8.25" (14.8cm x 21cm) The A4 are 8.25" x 11.7" (21cm x 29.8cm) The A3 are 11.7" x 16.5" (29.8 cm x 42cm) The A2 are 16.5" x 23.4" (42 cm x 59.4cm) Frames not included in price. Free shipping on artwork to UK destinations.

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[krwioholik]

Upon returning from a short time away, Emiel opened the door to his home. A ray of light shown in as the holy vampire entered into his house. His eyes scanned the somewhat dark interior, a reprieve from the harsh sun outside for his vampiric eyes. He immediately noticed an unfamiliar shape on the wall.

Nyctalus noctula, a common noctule bat. He immediately recognized it, being a polymath well-versed in many things. The bat was curled up clutching onto the wall, it's wings folded up under it giving it the appearance of a little loaf with small feets and ears poking out.

He could tell from hearing its little heart and its scent that it was very hungry and thirsty, the little bat was weakened and had come in as a result of hunger induced confusion and relative weakness and fatigue. The bat noticed his presence and chittered in fright, using echolocation to better see him. He heard its heart race, the bat was horribly afraid and regarded him with wide eyes.

// Hi anon!

I won't be answering this ask from Regis' point of view because you've done too much of writing my muse for me - something I don't appreciate. Please refrain from describing what Regis does or thinks if you send me any asks/prompts.

Setting the scene and describing what npcs do is perfectly fine of course but leave my muse to me, please :)

#Ooc

[todaysbat]

Are there bats that have unusually large or small wings for their body size? Does body size reliably predict wingspan?

As far as I am aware (and a quick google search seems to support this perception, I was unable to find anything directly relating to this subject and what I did find was full of technical jargon), body size does reliably predict wingspan across the order Chiroptera.* There are some species where the females tend to have a larger body size* than the males, though.

*A fancy way of saying all bats physically look proportionally similar. *Possibly only in specific measurements, such as the length of forearm, versus in general, if I understood what I read correctly from the article linked below.

further reading: - Common Noctule Bats Are Sexually Dimorphic in Migratory Behaviour and Body Size but Not Wing Shape | PLOS One (paper, academic language used): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167027

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