Bats

Video of Baxter in his new home

Try to imagine what this feels like… someone takes you captive, you don’t know why. You don’t speak their language and you are powerless to escape. You have no idea what they want of you, and you are terrified.

Cross-posted from "U.S.’ hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam’s painted woolly bats" by @kid2908@slrpnk.net in !vietnam@slrpnk.net

Source: 50 Years of Bat Research: Foundations and New Frontiers (published 2021)

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Today entry on the wiktionnaire, a bat specie: Rhinolophe euryale (french name)

Source: https://www.batcon.org/bat/desmodus-rotundus-2/

Mom and baby were doing fine.

Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/petits_animaux@jlai.lu/t/1423410