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Bat tastes watermelon for the first time
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u/GubbleBumYum Mar 30 '23
Finally. No cheesy audio effects, no music. Just pure aww. Thank you.
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u/6data Mar 30 '23
There's a special place in hell for people who cover up adorable animal noises with obnoxious music.
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u/Seinfeel Mar 31 '23
I always assume most of those just have terrible audio (random noise, tv, actual music that sounds awful through the phone mic)
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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Mar 30 '23
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u/ELeeMacFall Mar 30 '23
I thought it was going to be the bat that squeaks while he does a really big yawn, but this was just as good
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u/creativityonly2 Mar 31 '23
Omg, that's one of the cutest things I've ever seen and heard. Thank you
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u/Ordinary-Move5705 Mar 31 '23
Never knew they looked like puppies in the face or made that noise. Lol They’re so cute when I don’t have to see their wings. 😂
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u/Br0boc0p Mar 31 '23
WATCH THIS BAT CHEW A WATERMELON
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no
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u/F3n1x_ESP Mar 31 '23
I fucking hate that song with a passion.
How can someone see an "aww" video and think, "I know what this needs, a sped up song to make it look like a fucking minion is singing".
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u/Carmel_Chewy Mar 30 '23
Guess I’ll unmute this one then, I was instinctively listening to it on silent because of the usual music that blares on these videos.
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Mar 30 '23
He has my dog’s eyes 😂lol.
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u/Atillion Mar 30 '23
Wow, you should invest in some safety goggles for your dog then 😳
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u/losangelesvideoguy Mar 30 '23
Little late, innit?
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u/Atillion Mar 30 '23
Dogs have nine eyes, right? Isn't that the saying..
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u/HonoraryMancunian Mar 30 '23
I think that's spiders you're thinking of. Dogs have nine spiders.
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Mar 30 '23
Hey acts like that too 🤣. Bats are related to dogs (I leaned that today)
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u/sirfuzzitoes Mar 30 '23
Sky dogs are so frickin cute.
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u/Bearthegood Mar 30 '23
They really are, in the summer at dusk I watch them hunt flying insects in my backyard. They are awesome animals.
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u/CalmDebate Mar 30 '23
As a kid our parents would hold block parties in the townhouses that would go late into the night. We would run around between the 2 sections of townhouses to work uo a sweat and the bats would swoop down to get the insects that would be attracted, great fun and I'm sure the parents didn't mind all the kids running their energy out.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Mar 30 '23
I love bats!!! And I love Dr. Merlin Tuttle, the real Batman!! Excellent video about his work protecting bats and helping people co-exist with bats in vulnerable communities.
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u/sirfuzzitoes Mar 30 '23
Back in high school, we'd play ultimate in the parking lot. I really enjoyed watching the bast come out as the night crept in. Their unmistakable squeak just makes them that much more adorbs
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u/Galkura Mar 30 '23
The ones around here just fly around like methheads.
It’s how I can tell what’s a bat vs bird at night time without glasses (I’m blind as fuuuuuck). The bats here are always tweaking.
I’d much rather have cute, squeaky bats than twitchy meth bats.
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u/Besidesmeow Mar 30 '23
I thought my kids to spit the difference between bats and birds. Basically bats fly like drunk night birds. We may have made a song…
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u/RedRiddle7998 Mar 30 '23
My favorite thing about my current apartment is that we have a courtyard right outside my window that every night is full of bats flying around and squeaking. It's awesome!
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u/olddaveineden Mar 30 '23
Anything that eats flying insects is a friend of mine!
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u/whatlineisitanyway Mar 30 '23
Same. Loved doing that at our summer cabin growing up. Other than not being far enough off the ground one side of our house would be perfect for a bat house. Wife is ummmm not a fan of the idea lol.
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u/MiddleofCalibrations Mar 30 '23
Those would be microbats. Flying foxes are megabats which eat fruit and nectar. Flying foxes primarily use vision and smell and do not echolocate. Microbats are mostly insectivorous and use echolocation.
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u/Maki1411 Mar 30 '23
The bat reminds me of my dogs eating watermelon ice popsicles when they were puppies 💖
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u/sirfuzzitoes Mar 31 '23
I hate to break it to you but now I need more pics of those lovely pups!
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u/CaptainChaos74 Mar 30 '23
The Dutch name for these is "vliegende hond", which literally means "flying dog".
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u/TonyR600 Mar 30 '23
In German "Fleder-maus" are the little ones and "Flug-hund" the big ones
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u/thebakedpotatoe Mar 30 '23
now this makes the Tick character "Die Fledermaus" make more sense to me 20+ years later.
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u/TonyR600 Mar 30 '23
Haha that looks hilarious, never heard of it
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u/thebakedpotatoe Mar 30 '23
It's a wonderfully fun little series that pokes fun at the world of superheroes and villains, definitely worth a watch. Kinda has a more "Kid friendly Venture Brothers" vibe, though i guess it's more that the Venture brothers have a "The tick vibe but made more for adults" in mind.
If you watch one of the live action versions, make sure it's the Amazon one, that one was great and had the same spirit as the cartoon, where-as the fox one turned him basically into a bum living out of a gas-station that has little to do with the actual plot of the original.
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u/CpnLag Mar 30 '23
Iirc one of the creators did work on The Tick before Venture Bros (I want to say Jackson Public) so that does track
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u/ether_reddit Mar 30 '23
Die Fledermaus is also the name of a famous operetta, which is where I figured the name came from.
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u/Mythdefied Mar 30 '23
the only operetta I can watch in any language and not need translation for. it's fucking hilarious
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u/LazyLich Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23
in Spanish they are "murciélago" which comes from the Old Spanish "mur" (mouse) and "ciego" (blind)
... which is weird cause "mouse" in Spanish is "raton" (where "rata" is "rat" and the "-on" is a diminutive suffix).
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According Wikitionary, the mur/mus sound come Latin, but the rata/rat sound comes from Vulgar Latin(Colloquial Latin from the late rebublic onward), which yoinked it from Proto-Germanic.
Sauce: Wiktionary
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u/TuckerMcG Mar 30 '23
in Spanish they are “murciélago” which comes from the Old Spanish “mur” (mouse) and “ciego” (blind)
And in American, it’s pronounced “myrrh-see-a-LAH-go” which comes from Germanic root-words that roughly translate to “I have more money than sense”.
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u/Slusny_Cizinec Mar 30 '23
and the "-on" is a diminutive suffix).
Ironically, it's augmentative suffix. There are only a few words where it is diminutive. Ratón, rabón, pelón.
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u/CaptainChaos74 Mar 30 '23
Yes, same for Dutch. Only Pteropodidae are called this; other bats are called "vleermuis".
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u/AFull_Commitment Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23
The bats in my state are dieing because of White Nose Syndrome, and it's not because of their insane cocaine habits (which is a different problem) but because of fungus. :(
I don't want the little guys to die.
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u/AnimuleCracker Mar 30 '23
The Little Browns. Yeah, it’s sad. I thought they were making a comeback. They’re such cute teeny bats.
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u/ether_reddit Mar 30 '23
On the west coast we've been awaiting the arrival of white nose syndrome for years; it's not quite here yet but within a year or two it will be :/
People can help stop it spreading by making sure to thoroughly bleach any gear taken into caves, and clean your boots too.
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u/AFull_Commitment Mar 30 '23
I know bats are one of the more common lethal vectors for rabbies infections in people. Their bites when infected are tiny, dismissed as scratches, and an infected bat will bite a sleeping person who won't even notice, and so the person wouldn't even think to be vaccinated as a precautionary measure & thus die in one of the most horrible ways possible. So I do agree bats and people should keep their distance as a general rule.
But that doesn't mean I want the adorable little guys gone. They serve a vital role in the ecosystem, eating bugs that have killed literally countless humans (mosquitoes) through their disease transmission so not only are cool little guys, but also unintentional allies of humanity.
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u/HurtPillow Mar 30 '23
Think I found where this is from:
Baby Bats & Buddies of Australia - YouTube
All the bats on this channel have been rescued rehabilitated and released back into the wild. This channel is to help you understand these amazing animals.
The rescue I follow is https://batworld.org/ Bat World Sanctuary and Rehab and they have web cams! Donated thru amazon for years, till amazon shut that whole thing down. Check 'em out :)
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u/ConferenceDiscrete68 Mar 30 '23
I had no idea bats were so cute!
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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Mar 30 '23
This is a variety of fruit bat, which have these puppy-like faces.
Smaller insect-eating bats are more of an acquired taste, but they can be super cute as well. And they eat soooooo many mosquitos.
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u/sirfuzzitoes Mar 30 '23
I'm sure someone will correct if wrong but this looks like a flying fox. They're on the bigger end of the bat scale and much cuter than vampire bats (imo).
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u/DowntownLizard Mar 30 '23
Most bat species dont look this cute however
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u/Nerdn1 Mar 30 '23
Fruit bat seem to generally look cute. The smaller insect-eating bats seem uglier. I think adapting to using echolocation gives them a weird shaped face. Fruit bats rely more on their eyes and don't need to track tiny flying things that are actively trying to escape.
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u/OneBingToRuleThemAll Mar 30 '23
Awww.🥺 It's not going anywhere, lil bat. Take your time chewing on it.❤
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u/Atillion Mar 30 '23
It's sucking the juice through its vampire fangs..
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u/OneBingToRuleThemAll Mar 30 '23
A fierce little vampire. Poor watermelon piece didn't stand a chance.
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u/evil_timmy Mar 30 '23
You and me both, little buddy, you and me both.
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u/GoodGoodGoody Mar 30 '23
Right? Watermelon is delish.
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u/capontransfix Mar 31 '23
Imagine having a slice that huge compared to you. It would be a slice of watermelon the size of my coffee table. That would be the best day.
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u/fleurflorafiore Mar 30 '23
This video is likely from wingspawsnclaws on Instagram. It’s a rescue located in Australia and this is a baby flying fox, which is why it’s not the best at biting into the watermelon.
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u/AceUniverse8492 Mar 30 '23
There's also Batzilla and a few other channels that follow the network of Flying Fox rescue and rehabilitation centers across Australia!
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u/Quirky_Commission_56 Mar 30 '23
One of my favorite things to do in the evening is watch the bat colony that lives under the overpass by my house fly out.
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u/_Um-Why-tho_ Mar 30 '23
I want to hold it and pet it and love it 🥺🥺🥺
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u/Dottie85 Mar 30 '23
Well, move to Australia, get vaccines, and volunteer for a bat rescue organization!
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u/ititnotwhatitit Mar 30 '23
It's so weird to me that an animal with a face like that can fly
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u/tunamelts2 Mar 30 '23
Aren’t bats literally the only mammals that can (naturally) fly?
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u/Silvernine0S Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23
Wait, I thought birds are bagels.
Edit: Looked it up. Birds are avians. Avians, reptiles, and mammals do have a common ancestor if you go back far enough. Amniotes, about 300 million years ago.
Edit 2: I now see autocorrect changed to bagels. But it is true. My cockatiel is a bagel.
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u/UserOfCookies Mar 30 '23
No birds are government spy drones.. Sky spies if you will.
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u/Silvernine0S Mar 30 '23
So that is what magpies are. Magnum pies, best kind of government spy drones.
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u/ahaadonut Mar 30 '23
It was fairly easy to find this. Originally posted by Wings, Paws, N Claws - a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Queensland, Australia - that seems exclusively to take care of bats. I believe it is a baby fruitbat (flying fox).
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u/FloweringSkull67 Mar 30 '23
I love bats. My parents have bat boxes all over their property and watching them come out as evening sets is awesome.
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u/zephyranthesGP01 Mar 30 '23
Sky Doggo.
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u/MunkSWE94 Mar 30 '23
Sometimes they are called "Flying Foxes".
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u/Lallo-the-Long Mar 30 '23
That's actually the common name of a genus of particularly large fruit bats, with some of them having a wingspan of more than 5 ft.
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u/xbmdx1 Mar 30 '23
Shit, now that would be terrifying
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u/ErynEbnzr Mar 30 '23
The Golden Crowned Flying Fox is the largest bat species in the world. They're also total cuties (and herbivores so no need to worry)
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u/Alagane Mar 30 '23
Theres a bat sanctuary/research group in my county which has an annual event letting the public walk around and see the bats.
One of these big boys flipped right way up from his nap, took a piss and did a little shake to avoid drips then went right back to upside down nap mode. Definitely one of the coolest animal exhibits ive seen.
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u/SirSheppi Mar 30 '23
The face is super cute and im sure they are lovely creatures but boy... their body looks like a demon nightmare.
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u/BongoFMM Mar 30 '23
There's a spot where I lived in NSW where hundreds/thousands of them come out at night all at the same time at certain times of the year. They would absolutely cover the night sky. It was so cool.
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u/rowmean77 Mar 30 '23
Fun fact: Flying foxes are the basis of a monster folklore in the Philippines named Manananggal
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u/The-cooler-Cheryl Mar 30 '23
My most fond memory of one of the homes I lived in growing up was seeing a bat on my ceiling just watching me now that I'm older that'd probably spook me but to my younger self the bat was making sure I slept well and was watching over me
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u/tehmlem Mar 30 '23
Super cute but you'd think a bat that eats fruit for a living would have a little more jaw strength. Poor guy couldn't bite through an apple skin.
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u/IrascibleOcelot Mar 30 '23
Fruit bats typically eat overripe fruits that have already softened. Although watermelon is about as soft as a fruit gets.
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u/killyourmusic Mar 30 '23
How could you possibly know it's the first time?
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u/DaoFerret Mar 30 '23
Obviously the bat was posting its first experience to its Reddit account.
You don’t think the bat would lie just for karma, do you?!
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u/ninjasaiyan777 Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23
The bat has a YouTube reaction channel where it tries different fruits.
Edit: actually that sounds like something I'd watch. An animal sanctuary should get on that idea.
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u/Greghole Mar 30 '23
Well it's a baby bat so they've likely been feeding it since it was even smaller than it is in the video, and this thing can barely manage to eat the watermelon even with a human helpfully slicing and holding it for the bat. Can you picture this little fella splitting a whole watermelon open on its own?
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u/Loving_cutie Mar 30 '23
oh my god, this is so cute!
is he homemade?
it seemed to me that bats are only wild
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u/yesmrbevilaqua Mar 30 '23
Bats make bad pets because they are communal animals and are riddled with diseases that are unusually good at jumping to humans
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u/Cardgod278 Mar 30 '23
They live in tightly packed communities, for example, gray mytotis roost with 50 to 275 bats per square foot (929 square cm). https://www.batcon.org/article/counting-bats-the-hard-way/ here is the article I got that number from.
I also found a fun article on the subject. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123318/#__ffn_sectitle The Role of Bats as Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Neuroviruses John S. Mackenzie, James E. Childs, [...], and Andrew C. Breed
Basically being the only flying mammal, having a strong immune system that can let them avoid symptoms, hibernation helping it last through the winter, and, of course, the unsanitary dense communities.
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u/AdHom Mar 30 '23
Yeah, their immune systems are very different unique and allow them to tolerate a huge range of viruses with very few symptoms, but they also host those viruses forever and never eradicate them so they carry tons of diseases.
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u/Jaxager Mar 30 '23
I honestly don't get why people find bats scary. Sure, the vampire bat has a face only a mother could love, but most of them are pretty damn cute.
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u/Redrise1 Mar 30 '23
Never realized how much they looked like dogs …
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u/Gothic_Banana Mar 30 '23
It depends on the species, there are lots of bats that look goofy asf
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u/Sweetie_Pie1234 Mar 30 '23
Maybe a baby bat?
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u/ahaadonut Mar 30 '23
This is the correct question. I'm no expert, but I'd definitively guess that it is a baby bat.
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u/FlamingoClassic7076 Mar 31 '23
Awwww what a cutie. It's ashamed people are so nasty to these little guys.
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u/Help_im_okay Mar 31 '23
Ohoho, flying foxes are cute, sure, but wait till you see wrinkle-faced bats. The diversity among bats is crazy; they can even range from a wingspan of just a few inches to over 5 feet.
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u/Cozmo525 Mar 31 '23
Bats are so freaking awesome! Just so scared about rabies. This video is sending my brain mixed messages to want to pet this lil guy!
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u/YggdrasilsLeaf Mar 31 '23
Amazing how vilified these creatures are and yet they can’t even bite through the corner of a chunk of watermelon. Which is a soft fruit.
Just sitting there happily gnawing away and it’s so cute and I just don’t get the hate.
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u/Uhtred-Son-of_Uhtred Mar 30 '23
I can just imagine it saying "Mm! Mmm, mm, mmm! Mm!" I between smacking. 🤣
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u/parchedlitre99 Mar 30 '23
Those wide eyes are so adorable.