#bat science

[todaysbat]

#bat science #one health

[eskel-loves-lilbleater]

Um, Regis, is there something you haven't told us??! 🫣🦇

(Also, why am I imagining Regis in bat form completely trolling researchers? 😂)

#emiel regis rohellec terzieff godefroy #witcher regis #emiel regis #higher vampire #the witcher #wiedzmin #witcher 3 #wild hunt #wiedźmin #bat science #filthy brain #is it headcanon or science? #bat troll #how to screw with researchers #where's that Tumblr post about frogs and the wording of biology papers?

[considernature]

EEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEE

That's right! It's International Bat Appreciation Day! We share our planet with over 1400 species of bat, making the second most abundant mammal order, and they perform a wide variety of ecological roles, from dispersing seeds to pollinating flowers to eating thousands of insects in a single night! Over 200 bat species are listed as Threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature--that is over 14 percent of all bats!

YOU can help endangered bats today by donating to Pennsylvania Bat Rescue at this link. This PA-based organization rehabilitates sick or injured bats and helps educate people like you and me in how we can create more bat-friendly environments.

If you want to learn about particularly-cool bat species native to New Zealand, check out this Consider Nature article on the Pekapeka, the bat that walks:

For the rest of the day, Consider Nature will be bat-bombing Tumblr with some of our favorite bat species to share them with the world!

Alt text: a small brown bat stretching its wings with the kind of fabulous flourish that would impress Ryan Evans.

#animals #nature #science #biology #wildlife #conservation #environment #bats #international bat appreciation day #batbombing

[assortedasurathings]

Look at her go

#Elli #Bat science #gw2 #Asura #sketch

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Dying at this idea I just had: People become convinced Danny is the love child of Bruce Wayne (known manwhore) and Harley Quinn, because

-he looks just like a young Bruce, if (somehow) marginally paler, but with Harley’s button nose and big eyes.

-Then there’s his big, Harleyesque personality with Bruce’s faith in humanity and both’s proclivity for taking action against what they see as wrong.

-He’s a gymnastics champion like Harley with real intelligence buried deep under layers of plain silliness, though much more capable sobering up when situationally appropriate.

-Dangerous big animals love them and they have no answers why

-Both Danny and Bruce have BDE (Big Dad Energy)

-(also both Danny and Harley are high key metas but everyone just doesn’t mention that)

Both Harley and Danny do everything in their power to feed the rumors (without saying anything directly, that would be cheating), including Harley egging Bruce on camera while shouting “pay up bitch!” And Danny taking up wearing one of Harley’s jackets.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #batman #bruce wayne #harley quinzel #dc x dp #the bat kids love it (after doing a dna check) #and end up feeding the whole situation right along with them #at least as long as B doesn’t go and ACTUALLY make this kid his son #(this could be extra fun if it turns out Danny actually IS Bruce and Harley’s son #given his parents shaky morals and exceptional science #who’s to say they didn’t attend the same university as both B and Harls #and decided rather than go through the process of pregnancy all over again they just #pick their favorite class mates #maybe for some traits they want to see in their kid #maybe for funsies #and so this random rumor turns out to be 1000% true #just in the worst possible way)

[bats100]

Bats fact #94

This is how bats during the day time

#Thanks #science #fact #facts #facted #true #true facts #bats #bat #animals #pets #creatures #nature #learn #education #cute #puppy #sweetly #perfect #delightful #christmas #thanksgiving #happy new year #happy new moon #happy new month #happy new you #funny #smile #grin #laugh

[the-wolf-and-moon]

LDN 43, Bat of the Cosmos

#Astronomy #NASA #Night #Sky #Stars #Space #Science #Universe #Cosmos #Cosmic #Solar System #Bat #Nebula #Galaxy #Constellation #Constellations #Rainbow #Bright

[amnhnyc]

Mood? The diadem leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros diadema). This species can be spotted in parts of Australia and Southeast Asia. Weighing up to 1.7 oz (48 g), this large bat typically feeds on insects like beetles and moths. Occasionally it also preys on vertebrates including birds. Prey and potential predators beware: When threatened, this bat can use its large teeth to deliver a painful bite. 

Photo: opisska, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

#science #nature #natural history #animals #bats #did you know #animal kingdom #mammals #cool animals

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Honduran White Bat (Ectophylla alba)

(Photo from WordPress)

Conservation Status- Near Threatened

Habitat- Southern Central America

Size (Weight/Length)- 4.5 cm

Diet- Fruit

Cool Facts- The leaf-cuddling Honduran white bat made quite the rounds on the internet due to their adorable sleeping arrangements. During the day, these bats group together in ‘tents’ made out of leaves by cutting them open in the midrib with their teeth. The tents are constructed by multiple bats and are lived in for multiple weeks until the leaf dies. Colonies usually consist of 1-15 individuals and their offspring. The leaves give further protection from predators by making the Honduran white bat’s fur appear green when sunlight casts onto the leaf. These bats feed almost exclusively on figs. The yellow carotenoids in the fruit result in the yellow coloration on the bat’s nose and ears, resulting in the Honduran white bat being one of the only mammals to have coloration based on their diet.

Rating- 14/10 (Baby bats are called pups. Bat puppies.)

#animal of the day #animals #mammals #bats #thursday #september 14 #honduran white bat #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[chernobog13]

The giant rat-bat-spider attacks in The Angry Red Planet (1959).

#The Angry Red Planet #rat-bat-spider #monsters #science fiction

[loveisinthebat]

Captured , For SCIENCE!

#Rufous Mouse-eared bat #Bats of Africa #bat of the day #daily bat #bat #bats #batposting #cute bats #cute animals #They're okay! #Just for science #The bat is unhurt #Still a great batto

[todaysbat]

Title: Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white-nose syndrome

Study published: February 18, 2019

Reading Level: Academic

Access: Full Access Free

Link: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.12954

#white nose syndrome #bat science

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2023 #09: Things With Wings

(Apologies for the abrupt absence – I'm okay, just having everything break down at once. This is fine.)

So— back to the speculative evolution request list!

@thebigdeepcheatsy requested a "cactus-dwelling/germinating evolution of introduced rosy-faced lovebirds":

While Agapornis cheatsyi is still quite physically similar to its introduced ancestors, this lovebird has developed a close symbiotic relationship with the cactus Carnegiea ornipolis, a descendant of the modern saguaro.

Naturally fasciated, this cactus grows a splaying fan-like crown which the lovebirds excavate their shallow nest burrows into. Feeding on the cactus' fruit in early summer, the lovebirds then disperse the seeds via their droppings – a process that significantly improves propagation chances, both due to the birds commonly foraging and defecating around suitable nurse plants and the passage through their gut speeding up germination.

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Someone calling themself "LB" asked for some "flying afrotherians":

Elbeitandraka venenifer is a descendant of tree-climbing Malagasy tenrecs that developed gliding membranes – and its lineage is now just about achieving true powered flight.

About 25cm long (~10"), its proportionally short broad wings require it to fly very fast to generate enough lift for its weight. It mostly only actively flies when traveling between roosts and feeding sites (or when escaping from threats), alternating between gliding to save energy and flapping to recover altitude.

It's an opportunistic omnivore, crawling around in the tree canopy foraging for vegetation, fruits, fungi, invertebrates, and the occasional smaller vertebrate, using its flexible sengi-like nose to probe around in crevices.

Much like modern common tenrecs it's capable of hibernating for months at a time through periods of scarce food availability. It also accumulates alkaloid toxins in its body from its arthropod prey, advertising its unpalatability to predators with bold contrasting warning coloration on its wing membranes.

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And here's a combination of a couple of anonymous requests for both "flying heterodontosaurs" and "dragons with hind leg wings, a la sharovipteryx":

Inversodraco rapax is a highly specialized Jurassic descendant of heterodontosaurids that took to climbing and gliding, developing delta-wing-like membranes on their hindlimbs convergently similar to those of the earlier sharovipterygids.

Around 75cm long (~2'6"), it has unusually flexible hip joints for a dinosaur, able to splay its legs out to the sides to deploy wings supported by an elongated outer toe on each foot. Its arms form small forewings for stability, and its long tail ends in a vane of stiffened feathers that aid in steering.

Unlike its herbivorous-to-omnivorous ancestors it's primarily a carnivore, swooping down onto small prey and grabbing it with its talon-like forelimbs.

#spectember #spectober #spectember 2023 #speculative evolution #lovebird #parrot #bird #saguaro #cactus #plant #tenrec #afrotheria #mammal #heterodontosaurid #ornithischia #dinosaur #art #science illustration #look if any mammal is going to copy bats' homework it's going to be tenrecs

[considernature]

*crashes through wall like the Kool-Aid Man*

Y'ALL GOTTA LEARN ABOUT THIS COOL-ASS BAT

#animals #science #biology #conservation #nature #wildlife #ecology #environment #zoology #bats #halloween

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A mad scientist captured me, transformed me into a Noivern (dragon bat Pokémon) and teleported me to the rainforest to see how I’d survive there. I somehow managed to find my family by keeping on just flying away.

I didn’t know where I was going or anything, I just eventually ended up on the beach by the summer camp my we attend every summer. They gave me a bouncy ball to play with and told me I «should be in school right now», even though they were at summer camp, so surely it must have been summer vacation.

#dream #text #mad scientist #scientist #science #noivern #dragon #bat #pokemon #Pokémon #rainforest #family #camp #summer camp #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[othmeralia]

Look! It's freakin' bats. I love Halloween.

Image from: A philosophical account of the works of nature (1721) by Richard Bradley

#look its freakin bats #freakin bats #bats #zoology #halloween #spooky season #rare books #old books #natural history #science history #plates #othmeralia