#mexican freetailed bat

[transgender-chiroptera]

Mexican Freetailed bats, via

#mexican freetailed bat #microbat #bat

[deusamore]

#the mexican freetailed bat is. my love #my life #my heart #my soul #it lives in my mirrors and walls and crawled into a special place in my heart #so. #polls #tumblr polls #frog poll

[beansprean]

stumbled across your wwdits art—so cute! it also reminded me that sylvia de la cruz is also a vampire hunter by blood. in fact, iirc not only is the entire family, but none of them have...told guillermo?? (aside from at the dinner w nadja, but she hypnotized them to forget that.) and we know sylvia knows nandor's a vampire because she did try to stake him at the end there—though notably not until after guillermo pulled one out! which brings me to the funniest possible conclusion, which is that she took one look at nandor, felt los goosebumps, took a second look, saw his big bleeding heart, and went "we'll have to work on my son's taste in men but i'll let him have this. hi nandor not-a-vampire, wanna see baby photos?"

anyways. i really do wonder why no one's ever told guillermo about the old ancestral vampire hunting. did they just see him full iwtv at halloween age 10 and call an emergency meeting like "the first person to say something before he grows out of it gets staked" and then he never grew out of it.

LOL I mean it was kinda vague with how much la familia consciously KNEW - only abuela specifically said anything before they all went feral and seemed to know what los goosebumps meant - Miguel and his mom were both very confused by their physical reactions. i think abuela does call Nadja "chupasangre" (bloodsucker) but everyone else sticks to "demonio," "monstruo," "maldita" over and over like they're hypnotized, and only jump into action after abuela stands up and says smth like "monstruo debe de morir" (monster must die). There does seem to be a bit of a delay in their reaction as well, as they were dining with Nadja for at least like 20 mins before snapping, and Silvia didn't react to Nandor for probably like....hmmm. If Guillermo was bat-flying from Staten Island to the Bronx (like 15-odd miles as the crow flies), he could've been there with her for like 30-60 mins depending on how fast Guillermo can fly. Technically since I hc him as a mexican freetailed bat he can go up to 99mph but probably not for more than a few seconds, avg speed in a hurry would probably be more like 15-30mph. But let me not turn this into another 'bean talks about bats at length' moment.

Anyway I feel like la familia at large isn't fully conscious of their slayer heritage enough to really talk openly about it, like they either don't really know the specifics or pretend not to. Like it's very mythologized and entwined with their religion so just like 'yeah we stand up against evil, thats just catholicism!' but never 'vampires exist and we hunt them.' They just follow the traditions that have been passed down (wear your cross, eat your garlic; why? idk its just what we do) and follow the orders of their matriarch. Nadja may very well be the first vampire they've encountered! Guillermo also hypnotized Silvia at the end there and told her"no es peligroso" - "he's not dangerous" - which could have some very fun side effects. He very well may have made her forget again or she may just be cool about Nandor specifically now lmao.

#idk im rambling its very loosey goosey in my head #like they know but they dont KNOW know #theyre just vibin #if they get los goosebumps they kill a vampire and then just move on #either they are in a fugue state and dont even really remember doing it or they just trust that god is guiding them right #wwdits meta #de la cruces #not art

[vvatchword]

"AAAAA," said the bat

"I'm calling my agent"

:(

(Her name is Libby. She's a four-year-old Mexican freetail bat and i love her)

#bats #vvatchword

[todaysbat]

Bat of the Year 2023 Round One Results

Hoary Bat vs Chapin's Free-tailed Bat: 58.6% vs 41.4%, Hoary Bat advances to the next round

Pallid Bat vs Evening Bat: 57.7% vs 42.3%, Pallid Bat advances to round three

Gould’s Wattled Bat vs Pekapeka-tou-roa/New Zealand Long-tailed bat: 80.5% vs 19.5%, Pekapeka-tou-roa advances to the next round

Painted Bat vs Honduran White Bat: 50.8% vs 49.2%, Painted Bat advances to round three

Kitti's Hognosed Bat vs Mexican Freetailed bat: 34.8% vs 65.2%, Mexican free-tailed bat advances to the next round

Giant golden-crowned flying fox vs ghost-faced bat: 53.1% vs 46.9%, Giant golden-crowned flying fox advances to round three

Common Pipistrelle vs Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat: 49.9% vs 50.1%, Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat advances to next round

Spix's discwinged bat vs Spectral Bat: 53.7% vs 46.3%, Spix's discwinged bat advances to round three

#bat of the year 2023 #round two polls will be getting posted shortly

[dolls-and-cats]

FOMO: that sad feeling that you may live this whole life and then die with boring tea towels the whole time

before you remember that you can decorate them with stamps and acrylic paint!

This is a second foray into tea towel decoration since going to a workshop led by preetishandmades (instagram). One thing she showed but that I didn't do myself during the workshop was carve stamps with uncooked potatoes.

I bought several tea towels with an appealing decoration by victrolastudio.com (the green writing) and thought they'd be fun to stamp.

Austin is a home to Mexican freetail bats during part of their seasonal migration, so I was excited to make a bat stamp. Even though they're a little messy, that's my favorite of the 4 stamps I made.

When the paint dries, I'll iron the towels from the back side to set the color before I launder them. I've laundered the one I posted about earlier (with the peacock design) and the stamped design has stayed on the towel just fine.

#crafts #fun!!! #dopamine

[boywizard-moved]

one of the pastimes of all time is walking around in a field with tall grass and watching bats follow you around

#howl.txt #forms of symbiosis and harmony with nature and what not. also vampirism <3 #and i saw a yellow bat which is kinda rare bc the native palms got cut down and most bats here are mexican freetailed

[loveisinthebat]

Also This bat of the day

#Mexican Freetail Bat #Bat #Bat Conservation #This lad

[dyketectivecomics]

TBH the only thing getting me through the day right now & through all of this shit is thinking about how I’m absolutely going to walk into a DC pitch one day for a Batman!Cassandra & Robin!Carrie Future-verse team-up book and open it up with:

“As a queer who’s worked in an actual cave with the occasional bat flying in-”

#randyvents #i will NEVER leave that behind me g o d #like i LOVED giving tours! i LOVED working in that gift shop but also i never want to work in guest relations/customer service ever again #people are...... the Worst sometimes #but damn do i miss that cave... :( #we didn't have bats rlly except in the summer Occasionally tho #MEXICAN FREETAILS ARE SO DAMN CUTE YALL AHHHH #THEYRE T I N Y

[potatoesrawesome]

whenever i see a bat, i go buck wild. I LOVE BATS.

#animals #look at a mexican freetailed bat’s face and tell me that’s not an angel #mypost

[hyperionnebulae]

🌻

Okay so... BATS!

Bats are my favorite animal! I mean I like a lot of animals but they’re fascinating.

AND can we please stop using the wrong bat type in vampire movies?! 

Like this is a vampire bat:

Not this: (Little brown bat) - Eats insects

Or this: (Egyptian Fruit Bat) - Eats Fruit

Or this: (Greater Bulldog Bat) - Eats fish

Thematically, very few bats make sense in horror? Like I’d love to see those vampire types that don’t drink blood tho? Link me that shit.

#asks #bats #vampires #also bats are the fastest mammal on earth! #the mexican freetailed bat has been clocked at 99 mph like?! #and it doesnt want to hurt us it just wants to eat insects! #just like they are so good for the environment #please dont hate my friends #damnitd

[transgender-chiroptera]

Spaghetti the Mexican Freetailed bat, via

The blue ear is a marker for staff at the Bat World Sanctuary so they know he's going to be released soon! It is harmless and temporary.

#Mexican freetailed bat #microbat #bat #have i mentioned that molossidae are some of my absolute favourites? well they are #CUTIES!!!!!!!!!

[libr-tumbl-alternative]

A plan to conscript bats as tiny bombers failed in the past. But bats might save us from bioterror in the future. Powered by AutoBlogger.co

#bat bombers #bat bomb plot #bats us military #mexican freetailed bats #egyptian fruit bats #egyptian fruit bats marburg virus #bats immunity marburg #soviet bioterror #marburg bioterror #why are bats immune to marburg

[uacboo]

It’s Bat Week! These Mexican free-tailed bats are from the Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve in Texas. Southwest of the town of Mason near State Highway 29 in Mason County sits the Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve—one of the largest bat nurseries in the country. About 4 million female bats inhabit the site from May through September. Most of these are pregnant when they arrive. In the Bat Cave, females give birth to a single pup in June or July. The young bats grow rapidly and are able to fly at about five weeks of age. However, they will remain with their mothers until they return to Mexico in October. An hour or two before sunset, hundreds of bats flutter and chirp around the mouth of the cave. Slowly, a stream of bats emerges and flies in a large circle, low to the ground, just outside the cave entrance. These bats gradually spiral upwards and form a dark funnel of flying mammals, reaching several hundred feet into the evening sky. The bats at the top of the spiral break off, forming columns that stream out over the countryside. This seemingly impossible torrent of bats forms a densely packed “bat tornado” for about an hour.

Millions of Mexican free-tailed bats can be seen here. Like all bat species, the free-tailed population at the Bat Cave is an integral part of regional ecology. For many years, however, bats were considered menacing creatures to be avoided or destroyed. Thanks to the work of biologists and groups like Bat Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy, this groundless reputation is slowly being corrected.

Bats are finally gaining recognition for their important ecological roles. They are agents of seed dispersal and cross-pollination for many plant species. Bats also control insect populations. They scour thousands of acres of countryside each night searching for food. During these nightly excursions, each bat consumes close to its body weight in insects. Included in their diet are mosquitoes and numerous crop pests such as cutworm and corn borer moths.

This unique preserve is home to one of the largest aggregations of warm-blooded animals in the world. Because these and other bat species roost in such large numbers, colonies could be destroyed by a single act of vandalism. The free-tailed bat population has declined dramatically in some areas of the country. This decrease is largely attributed to the disturbance and destruction of roost sites by humans, usually leading either to total evacuation of the roost or complete decimation of the site’s entire population. Because free-tailed bats give birth to only a single pup each year, a population’s recovery rate is slow.

Richard Phillip Eckert and Virginia Eckert Garrett donated the cave to The Nature Conservancy in honor of their father, Lee Eckert, and grandfather, W. Phillip Eckert. The Eckert family acquired the property in 1907 when W. Phillip purchased the ranch on which the cave was located. In the early 1900s, W. Phillip mined the bat guano in the cave and sold it to local farmers for crop fertilizer. W. Phillip’s son, Lee Eckert, continued his father’s legacy of bat conservation and guano mining and left the site to his wife and children when he passed away in 1967.

This generation of Eckerts wanted to ensure permanent protection of the bats, so in 1990 they donated the cave to the Conservancy on condition that the land around the cave remain open to the public for enjoyment and education, as it had been for more than 100 years.

The management plan developed by Bat Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy prevents human entrance to the cave during maternal activity, controls visitation, monitors the bat population and protects the cave opening. Scientific research continues at the site and the cave remains open to scientists throughout most of the year.

Sources: USFWS and https://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/texas/placesweprotect/eckert-james-river-bat-cave-preserve.xml

If you’ve never been at the entrance to a 🦇 cave near sunset, put it on your bucket list!

#bat week #bat cave #usfws #mason #texas #the nature conservancy #bat conservation international #Mexican freetailed bats #eckert james river bat cave preserve

[demon-birate]

Me, logically: mf bat stands for Mexican Freetail Bat, a bat native to my region

My brain, everytime I go to feed it: hehe mother fuckin Bat

[idrisacademy]

If everyone was a animal what animal would they be? Or if everyone was a breed of dog what breed would they be?

Alec: German Shepard or Doberman

Magnus: Siamese Cat

Izzy: German Shepard or Doberman

Jace: Golden Retriever or a very annoying Chihuahua

Simon: Beagle

Clary: Hamster

Raphael: Mexican Freetail Bat

Maia: Otter

#answered #shadowhunters #shadowhunters au #magnus bane #alec lightwood #simon lewis #izzy lightwood #jace herondale #clary fray #raphael santiago #maia roberts #Anonymous