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.

From the photographer:

They probably use them for communication: https://www.science.org/content/article/some-bats-may-use-ultraviolet-glowing-toes-communicate-their-kin

Get your tix here: https://news.batcon.org/4tteNV7

From Bat World Sanctuary:

From Bat World Sanctuary:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45706549

Salamander was rescued from a barbed wire fence where he sustained some pretty serious damage to his wing membrane.

Source: https://agencia.fapesp.br/in-bats-the-ability-to-gestate-twins-is-associated-with-a-shorter-lifespan/37323

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_flying_fox_die-offs

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1234212/why-aren-t-we-doing-this

Source: https://www.batcon.org/bat/idionycteris-phyllotis/

Source: https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/bats-can-be-valuable-allies-for-farmers-by-eating-pests-study/

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)

Source

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