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continues with a Long-eared Pipstrelle lapping up Licorish allsorts. Ears up as it is actively listening. Look up and boggle at the sheer quantity of insects bats eat in a night! Chuck out your pest sprays and invest in tree crevices and bat boxes!

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2021-10-09

continuing a pace! Ghost bats are Australia's largest microbat, stunning & carnivorous. has done some awesome research on their social vocalisations. Lolly frogs are wonderfully chewy - a real Macroderma gigas would infinitely prefer a mouse.

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2021-10-08

Another offering; Hipposideros fulva about to nick pistachios from atop Gulab Jamun. These bats are actually insectivorous and have the most adorable little nose dishes that aid in echolocation.

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2021-10-08

Last bats from me (I think) of from Joris Hoefnagel, C16th. 🦇 🦇 🦇

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2021-08-30

that as well as today is also the final day of To celebrate here is a print of various bats from Ernst Haeckel's 'Kunstformen der Natur' (Artforms in nature), 1899-1904. More about Haeckel in our blog from 2017: https://t.co/p2yQettBgn

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2020-10-31

Bats are pretty important - over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination.

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2020-10-30

Results from tonight's stream!

Everyone is now Bat, congrats

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2020-10-29

🦇Whether you're celebrating or invite Salvin's Big-eyed Bat (Chiroderma salvini) to the party.

These fruit-loving, leaf-nosed bats are found in Central/South America. Illustration in Edward R. Alston's "Mammalia" in : https://t.co/FF7AfPcBL8

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2020-10-30

It’s Laszlo’s favorite week. It’s

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2020-10-29

They take to the skies with the greatest of ease; bats are the only mammals to fly as they please! 🦇

These Leisler’s bats wish you a happy Archibald Thorburn illustrated Ireland's biggest bat for his 1920 book "British Mammals."

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2020-10-27

Don’t worry if you were late to the party: now you know and you can mark your calendar for next year! Learn how you can be involved as an individual, a volunteer group, or a business over on or https://t.co/8Ss9hBb59Y

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2018-10-31

♥️. One of our favorite bat illustrations in is that of the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) from "The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" (Mammalia, 1839), edited by Charles In thanks to : https://t.co/ZyAgvHRn9E

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2018-10-26

We're batty for 🦇

Bats are the only mammals naturally capable of true, sustained flight. Bats on the wing by Archibald Thorburn from his "British Mammals" v. 1 (1920). Check it out for free in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/liXT09MrcJ

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2018-10-25

Is there a Victorian greeting card for every occasion?

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2018-08-26

Unlike birds, bat wings don't have to be symmetrical and can create shapes that allow for greater maneuverability.

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2017-10-30

24, a very fluffy pal: the Rodrigues Fruit Bat!
Also it's https://t.co/iETw1e5ymm

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2017-10-25