“ Come On Guys We Have To Follow The Magical Trail Trough The Leaves !!! " 

Shakespeare bat :3

Fruit bat noises, apparently. If you care

ah, this bat

this particular species has such a wide range of visual appearances it's nuts. from various shades of brown with mild frosting to extra value-brand hoary or red bat.

Bat hunting ..

Hands you a Her

...this is literally an American noctule. it potato. fuzzy potato. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i hate that rabies is a thing I WANT TO HOLD THE FUZZY POTATO

Bat of the day! Native to my Home State

The fucking posts i see from people all like "why is the federal government funding research about snail sex this is stupid" piss me the fuck off. There's lots of reasons, Harold.

1. Understand how snails reproduce so we can learn more about the world around us and maybe learn more about ourselves or how things work.

2. You literally never know what could spark the next great scientific advancement. Snail sex hormones could be a miracle cure for cancer but you won't fucking know that unless you study the snail sex.

3. Hate to break it to ya pal but snails are still worth researching even if you think they're "useless animals." They feed larger animals, they eat plants and shit, they exist and quite frankly that's marvelous. Just because they are useless TO YOU does not mean they aren't worthy of attention.

Like genuinely quit focusing on going "ew!! Icky useless animal having icky sex!!" or whatever, you sound like the people who demonized Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, for wanting to study how plants reproduce.

You know what fuck you

*spell of bnuuy vortex*

src for bite force figure in tags: Freeman, Patricia W. and Lemen, Cliff A., "Measuring Bite Force in Small Mammals with a Piezo-Resistive Sensor" (2008). Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum.

Normally would say 'Lasiurini are never not cute', but this particular image...

Hoary bat

no source, was sent to me. posting it because it's fucking funny