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I was told that you guys would appreciate this many bats
I had my film camera at a local Easter festival & parade a few weeks ago, the drumming and firecrackers from the Chinese dragon was NOT appreciated by the fruitbats in the botanic gardens. Not a sight you see very often in the daytime!
u/EMI326 — 2 days ago
Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats
ecoticias.comu/UtopiaResearchBot — 1 day ago
Excuse the bad quality of my camera haha
There are lots of these bats near my house, I love to see them fly on the night
u/jvst4c0rps3 — 1 day ago
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Bats grounded near bat house
These past years we have found maybe one grounded bat a year all around this time of the year. This year we have found around 6 bats grounded in these past few weeks. I’m really concerned. Usually I just pick them up with a piece of cardboard and they either fly off from my hand or I put them on a tree for the day. We have found a few that don’t act right and seem ill or something but most of them were healthy/active. They are always gone in the day after we pick them up. We have a wasp problem in the bat house, but I can’t think that’s what causing so many of them to fall. We are working on putting a “pup catcher” or something similar to that on the wall leading up to the bat house since the building is metal and unclimbable. Does anyone have any idea why they might be falling so frequently? Is it just too hot/cold? I’m from Ohio so the temperature has been varying a lot lately. I go on daily bat patrol today so they don’t cook in the sun. Has anyone else experienced this? I just hope they’re not sick or anything. I don’t mind picking them up and whatever I’m just so worried that we did something wrong or that something’s wrong with them.
u/Charming-Benefit7441 — 1 day ago
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Is this chirping sound compatible with bats?
The city where I live has a high population of bats, sometimes I can see them gliding elegantly between the trees. Tonight I did not see any of them but kept hearing a lot of chirping coming from the trees (first seconds of the video). Are these sounds from batties or from another animal?
u/Bscorp800 — 13 hours ago
Can a biologist identify these?
can anyone who is pretty good at bat identification tell me what species they might be? i was thinking evening bat or big brown but not 100% sure. if they’re tri colored i’d like to know for sure. location is Florida in the Tampa Bay area!
u/ThisAbility3879 — 3 days ago
Desmodus Rotundus skull
My interpretation of a Desmodus Rotundus skull — the common vampire bat. The model is super accurate to a real skull, printed in ABS-like resin at roughly 6" (150mm) long, and hand-painted using acrylics, pigments, and enamels. Tried to give it a weathered and aged appearance.
u/redcore5 — 3 days ago