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TieDyeDude
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As #batweek comes to a close, I thought I'd highlight a few of the coolest species of the over 1,300 we know of.
1. Hammerhead bat: Male vocal cords are about 3x larger than female, and they have large resonating chambers on their faces. Females appear more like a typical megabat.
2. Honduran White Bat constructs “tents“ out of understory plant leaves by strategically cutting the leaf ribs with its teeth; it roosts in these tents during the day ↩

TieDyeDude 3. Rufous Horseshoe Bat. Look at that scrunchy little face! It reminds me of Bugsy the gangster from Looney Tunes. The wrinkles help the bat better receive and interpret signals from echolocation.
4. Bulldog bats have cheek pouches for storing food that look like bulldog jowls when empty. Their primary food is fish, and they use echolocation to “look“ for ripples in the water.
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Bookwomble ♥️🦇♥️ 6d
Seabreeze_Reader Really interesting 🦇 info. I plan to dress like a bat when handing out candy but it'll be more like the Dracula cartoon version. 6d
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AnnCrystal Thanks for sharing 🦇😎👍💫. 5d
BookNAround I love sky puppies. 5d
dabbe 🖤😱🖤 5d
PaperbackPirate 💙🦇 thanks for sharing! 1d
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TieDyeDude
Scarathlon | Litsy
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So about 90% of my points came from the first two weeks (and I got distracted with #batweek), but I'm happy with the results of my first #scarathlon, and my first #bookspin / #bookspinbingo. @FlynnDewey #teamwhoyagonnacall

Melismatic Great job!! 12mo
bthegood Great job 🎃 12mo
DebinHawaii Awesome job! 🖤👻🖤 12mo
StayCurious yay great job! 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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Thanks to everyone for following along or tolerating my batty posts for #batweek. I was at a dinner party in Colorado, and when I brought up bats, the host casually mentioned killing dozens of them because they would roast in his porch, and he didn't like it. Their unearned reputation as pests, dirty, or just scary can have devastating effects on the ecosystems they support. You don't have to love them, but don't hate them. ♥️🦇🖤

rachelsbrittain I love bats! I don't want to get too close to them because of rabies, but they're so cool and absolutely important as pollinators and part of the ecosystem! I made a marionette of a fruit bad for a 3rd grade project on animals because I thought they were so cool. 12mo
julesG Bats are cool! They are under special protection in Germany. I never even thought of them as pests. 12mo
Deblovestoread Andrew, honestly bats scare me. But I appreciate the roll they play and just try to be inside when they are swooping outside. Thanks for all the interesting info. 💜 12mo
Clwojick I love bats! When we moved into our new house, we immediately took down all the bird houses the previous owner had left, but the bat house is one of my prized possessions! 🖤 I‘ve only seen one come out of it, but I just love it. 🦇🦇🦇 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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Don't you just want to pinch those cheeks?! ? While mega bats like the flying fox are the most "sky puppy"-ish, there are over 1,400 species of bats, which accounts for 20% of all mammal species! They can be found nearly everywhere on earth, aside from the harshest desert or artic. And they are the only mammals capable of true flight (nice try, "gliding" squirrels). #batweek

CBee I love bats! We get them here at dusk and I love watching them swoop around 🦇 12mo
Amiable “CBS Sunday Morning” had a segment about bats on yesterday‘s show! 12mo
TheLudicReader Your bat posts crack me up and by that I mean 😬. My son loves bats and always wants me to admit that they are cute...which they decidedly are not. 12mo
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Clare-Dragonfly Wow, 20%! I wonder why there are so many? Benefits of flight, perhaps? 12mo
bthegood love these posts (and love the “nice try -gliding squirrels“) - 🦇 12mo
TieDyeDude @Cbee We need to set up some yard furniture. I'm not sure how many are around here in AK. 12mo
TieDyeDude @amiable Thanks, I'll look for it on YouTube. I love CBS Sunday Morning! 12mo
TieDyeDude @thelucidreader At least your son has good taste! 😅 J/K. Thanks for reading anyway! 12mo
TieDyeDude @clare-dragonfly I think a lot of it is just the evolutionary adaptations for all the different environments and diets. Some species are wide ranging (little brown bats can be found throughout North America), but many are specific to fairly small regions (Bumblebee bats are found only among limestone caves along the Thailand-Myanmar border). That's why habitat destruction of even a small area could put a whole species in danger of extinction. 12mo
TieDyeDude @bthegood Thanks 😅 12mo
CBee @TieDyeDude I think they‘re out more in warmer weather as I haven‘t seen them recently. They‘re super fun to watch when I can! 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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How do bats spend so much energy gripping with their feet while hibernating? They don't! The tendons of their feet have evolved to lock their toes in a grip, and they actually have to flex to release from their roost. This allowed their leg bones to evolve thin and light to eliminate some weight as they gained flight. Their legs now would not support their weight if they tried standing. #batweek

Ladygodiva7 Sooo cute!!! That was interesting too!! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 12mo
tpixie Amazing 🦇 12mo
TieDyeDude @ladygodiva7 @tpixie Thanks for reading! 12mo
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TieDyeDude
Good Bats! Poem | Susan Blackaby
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Bat Poem by Isabelle Busch #batweek #poetrymatters

TheSpineView 🖤🦇🖤 12mo
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TieDyeDude
Stellaluna | Janell Cannon
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Like humans, bats only have one or two offspring each year, which increases their susceptibility to major colony damage from disease like white-nose syndrome or habitat loss. Recovery can be very slow. More than 200 bat species around the world are considered threatened. WNS alone has the potential to wipe out 90% of a colony in one winter. #batweek

SamAnne Loving your bat posts. Lost our colony of bats next to my house due to a shitty illegal development. It‘s been so sad. Really missed them whizzing past my head this summer while sitting on my porch. Such amazing beings. 12mo
TieDyeDude @samanne Thank you! Sorry to hear about your local colony. A group I follow is fighting constantly to have even legal development show consideration towards local bat populations. 12mo
SamAnne @TieDyeDude I‘m interested in what noticeable cascading effects we see? More mosquitos? We‘ve also seen far reduced butterflies, pollinators and dragonflies, not sure the cause of all of it—climate change weather for sure, habitat loss. We have a full lot with fruit trees, plants, vegetable gardens, native flowers, no pesticides or herbicides. I‘m really missing my bats and bugs. 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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This little cutie is actually the fearsome vampire bat! You can see its two little fangs. They use the fangs to slice, not puncture, and their saliva has an anti-coagulant to prevent the wound from closing while they feed.
They are only 2-3 inches big with a 7 inch wing span, so the incision is tiny. Found primarily in Latin America, they prefer to feed on sleeping livestock and birds, so human interaction is very rare. #batweek

WildAlaskaBibliophile 🦇❤️ 12mo
BookNAround Adorable little sky puppy. 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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Bat Week Day 2: Some bats have butt spoons they use to catch insects mid-flight, then they do crunches like a gym bro to pop the bug into their mouth. Bats can't glide (that's one way to tell them from birds while flying), so all this is done while flapping. #batweek

Clare-Dragonfly BUTT SPOON 12mo
rwmg So that's why Batman has great abs 12mo
Aimeesue !!!! Bats are so awesome 🦇 12mo
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Bookzombie Fascinating! 12mo
bthegood omg - thank you - I am enjoying these bat lessons - I have two bat houses up and while in Texas watched the bats at Camden Street Bridge (tens of thousands come out at dusk) - 🦇 12mo
TieDyeDude @Clare-Dragonfly I hadn't heard it before, and I love it 😂 12mo
TieDyeDude @rwmg This is yours 🏆 😅 12mo
TieDyeDude @bthegood I visited Congress Ave Bridge in Austin, but I wasn't aware of Camden Street Bridge. Very cool! 12mo
bthegood @TieDyeDude in San Antonio - now I'll have to go to Austin !! Have a good day - 12mo
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TieDyeDude
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It's Bat Week! 🦇🦇🦇 I love bats, always have. Bat Week is the seven days leading into Halloween, highlighting the importance of their role in ecosystems around the world at a time where they tend to be treated as a symbol of evil and fear. Love the sky puppies! #batweek

Amiable They do look adorable in this photo. 😀 12mo
Ruthiella Sky puppy! 😂 12mo
Aimeesue ❤️ 🦇 🦇 🦇❤️ 12mo
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SamAnne I love bats! I grew up in an old farmhouse on the Oregon coast. We had a colony of about 100 in our attic. In the spring they would occasionally forget how to get out and would end up in my bedroom. Yes, as a child they only monster sometimes worried about we‘re vampires and I would not sleep with my neck uncovered. But I love bats. So cool to catch them with leather gloves to release outside. Amazing creatures. 12mo
TieDyeDude @SamAnne That's cool! We had a bat in my parents' bedroom once. They were freaking out, and I kept trying to get past them so I could hang out with it 😂 12mo
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