Remember to give gifts to bats on batmas
Remember to give gifts to bats on batmas
Follow this thread to learn about bats everyday! 🦇 🧵
Follow this thread to learn about bats everyday! 🦇 🧵
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#BatSky🧵
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Bats are amazing and I love when others are excited about them!
3 days until the end of #BatMas! 🦇🧪🌎
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Due to this bats unique colouration, many are sold online as taxidermy, or as local souvenirs – which threatens populations of this rare species. These bats are very small & weigh about 5 g (approx. weight of a nickel).
📸: Merlin Tuttle
A species found in the Mediterranean & Balkan peninsula, these bats prefer karst formations, broadleaved woodlands & olive groves! When giving birth, females will congregate in maternity roosts of 50 - 400 females
📸: Ivan Kuzmin
A fan favourite for looking like cottonballs, these bats construct tents out of plants, where they strategically cut the leaf ribs with their teeth and roost together in the day. These bats also eats exlusively figs.
📸: André Gilden
A species found in the Mediterranean & Balkan peninsula, these bats prefer karst formations, broadleaved woodlands & olive groves! When giving birth, females will congregate in maternity roosts of 50 - 400 females
📸: Ivan Kuzmin
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They can fly at very high altitudes (around 3,300 m) & have the record for the fastest horizontal speed of any animal - ground speeds over 160km/h!
Up to 1.5 million roost under a bridge in Austin, Texas too!
📸: Micheal Durham
This species is one of the largest bats in the world - weighing up to 1.1kg & having a wingspan of 1.5m! The IUCN listed this species as Endangered since their population is declining due to the bushmeat trade & habitat loss.
📸: Andrea Janda