the fact that some painted bats in Thailand naturally come in orange and black Halloween colors makes me so happy you dont understand
the ultimate spook bois
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It’s like if a dog was a cat and could fly
the fact that some painted bats in Thailand naturally come in orange and black Halloween colors makes me so happy you dont understand
the ultimate spook bois
Carved himself out of the pumpkin
IT’S TIME FOR THE HALLOWEEN BATS
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Any funky little bat facts, anything is good
mexican long-nosed bats are key pollinators for several species of cactus!
"how do they get the nectar out of the flower, though?" you ask. "maybe with a long tongue, like a butterfly?" well, that's plausible, but INCORRECT.
see, the cactus flowers are actually larger than the bat itself!
so it just kinda. crawls in there.
and in the process gets just SO covered with pollen. absolutely lost in the sauce.
which of course, they smear all over the flowers of the next cactus over when they repeat the process. isn't biology beautiful?
Powdered like a DONUT
They found that the bat noises are not just random, as previously thought, reports Skibba. They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close. In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people. Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds. The research appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
forty arguing bats
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Bats be like
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HE LEETLE FEETSYS
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very glad to see this post reduced everyone else mental capacity for communication as well
