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I'd like to end the today with some super cool #BatFacts! Get ready for your mind to be BLOWN!
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I'd like to end the today with some super cool #BatFacts! Get ready for your mind to be BLOWN!
[A thread]
#Bats #BatTwitter
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Cool Bat Fact #1: The Smallest Bat
Let's start with the smallest & biggest bats in the world
The smallest #bat is a Kitti's hog-nosed bat (aka Bumblebee bat) from Thailand, the size of your thumb tip & weighing less than a penny!
: Yushi & Keiko Osawa
![[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #1: The Smallest BatLet's start with the smallest & biggest bats in the world The smallest #bat is a Kitti's hog-nosed bat (aka Bumblebee bat) from Thailand, the size of your thumb tip & weighing less than a penny!: Yushi & Keiko Osawa](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqhWu8rVgAAXOhl.jpg "[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #1: The Smallest BatLet's start with the smallest & biggest bats in the world The smallest #bat is a Kitti's hog-nosed bat (aka Bumblebee bat) from Thailand, the size of your thumb tip & weighing less than a penny!: Yushi & Keiko Osawa")
Cool Bat Fact #1: The Smallest Bat
Let's start with the smallest & biggest bats in the world
The smallest #bat is a Kitti's hog-nosed bat (aka Bumblebee bat) from Thailand, the size of your thumb tip & weighing less than a penny!
: Yushi & Keiko Osawa
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Cool Bat Fact #2: The Biggest Bat
The largest bat is a Golden-crowned flying fox from the Philippines. It has a wingspan of up to 6 feet, but weighs only about 2 pounds. Also, it only eats fruit!
https://www.batcon.org/article/goldencrowned-flying-fox/
#Bats #BatFacts
Cool Bat Fact #2: The Biggest Bat
The largest bat is a Golden-crowned flying fox from the Philippines. It has a wingspan of up to 6 feet, but weighs only about 2 pounds. Also, it only eats fruit!
https://www.batcon.org/article/goldencrowned-flying-fox/
#Bats #BatFacts
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Cool Bat Fact #3: Eternal Life (almost...)
#Bats live incredibly long lives for animals their size. A Brandt’s myotis from Siberia was recorded living AT LEAST 41 years in the wild. Little brown bats in the US can live 34+ years! https://www.batcon.org/article/the-oldest-bat/
Cool Bat Fact #3: Eternal Life (almost...)
#Bats live incredibly long lives for animals their size. A Brandt’s myotis from Siberia was recorded living AT LEAST 41 years in the wild. Little brown bats in the US can live 34+ years! https://www.batcon.org/article/the-oldest-bat/
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Cool Bat Fact #4: Sociality
Many #bats are very social, living in large groups. Here, you can see Southern bent-wing bats from Australia huddled together, up to 100 bats per square foot! They're quite clean & spend lots of time grooming.
#BatFacts
Cool Bat Fact #4: Sociality
Many #bats are very social, living in large groups. Here, you can see Southern bent-wing bats from Australia huddled together, up to 100 bats per square foot! They're quite clean & spend lots of time grooming.
#BatFacts
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Cool Bat Fact #5: Largest Colony
Speaking of lots of bats, the US (Texas) is home to the largest colony of bats in the world. #BrackenCave, owned by @BatConIntl, houses 20 MILLION Mexican free-tailed bats every summer!
Cool Bat Fact #5: Largest Colony
Speaking of lots of bats, the US (Texas) is home to the largest colony of bats in the world. #BrackenCave, owned by @BatConIntl, houses 20 MILLION Mexican free-tailed bats every summer!
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Cool Bat Fact #6
There are SO many bats that emerge nightly during the summer from #BrackenCave that they’re visible on weather radar! Imagine being a weather person and seeing this on Doppler radar!
@BatConIntl #BatFacts #Bats
Cool Bat Fact #6
There are SO many bats that emerge nightly during the summer from #BrackenCave that they’re visible on weather radar! Imagine being a weather person and seeing this on Doppler radar!
@BatConIntl #BatFacts #Bats
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Cool Bat Fact #7: Super Speed
The #bats living in #BrackenCave are the fastest horizontal animal flier in the world, clocking in at 100 mph! That's faster than we drive on the highway!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/10/meet-the-brazilian-free-tailed-bat-the-fastest-animal-on-earth/
@washingtonpost
#BatFacts
Cool Bat Fact #7: Super Speed
The #bats living in #BrackenCave are the fastest horizontal animal flier in the world, clocking in at 100 mph! That's faster than we drive on the highway!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/10/meet-the-brazilian-free-tailed-bat-the-fastest-animal-on-earth/
@washingtonpost
#BatFacts
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Cool Bat Fact #8: Crazy Long Tongue
Imagine having a tongue 9 feet long!
Some nectar #bats have tongues 1 1/2 times their body length to reach into flowers. They store it in their chest when not in use.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10721-the-bat-with-the-incredibly-long-tongue/
@newscientist #BatFacts
![[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #8: Crazy Long TongueImagine having a tongue 9 feet long! Some nectar #bats have tongues 1 1/2 times their body length to reach into flowers. They store it in their chest when not in use. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10721-the-bat-with-the-incredibly-long-tongue/ @newscientist #BatFacts](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqhxR9YUUAA9MPl.jpg "[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #8: Crazy Long TongueImagine having a tongue 9 feet long! Some nectar #bats have tongues 1 1/2 times their body length to reach into flowers. They store it in their chest when not in use. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10721-the-bat-with-the-incredibly-long-tongue/ @newscientist #BatFacts")
Cool Bat Fact #8: Crazy Long Tongue
Imagine having a tongue 9 feet long!
Some nectar #bats have tongues 1 1/2 times their body length to reach into flowers. They store it in their chest when not in use.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10721-the-bat-with-the-incredibly-long-tongue/
@newscientist #BatFacts
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Cool Bat Fact #9: Super Moms
#Bat moms are SUPERMOMS! A pup can be 1/3 her body weight when born. That would be like a human giving birth to a toddler! She can even fly with her baby until it’s half her weight. Wowzers!
: @FrickWinifred/ @BatConIntl
![[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #9: Super Moms #Bat moms are SUPERMOMS! A pup can be 1/3 her body weight when born. That would be like a human giving birth to a toddler! She can even fly with her baby until it’s half her weight. Wowzers!: @FrickWinifred/ @BatConIntl](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqhx3WrVgAE7vsL.jpg "[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #9: Super Moms #Bat moms are SUPERMOMS! A pup can be 1/3 her body weight when born. That would be like a human giving birth to a toddler! She can even fly with her baby until it’s half her weight. Wowzers!: @FrickWinifred/ @BatConIntl")
Cool Bat Fact #9: Super Moms
#Bat moms are SUPERMOMS! A pup can be 1/3 her body weight when born. That would be like a human giving birth to a toddler!
She can even fly with her baby until it’s half her weight. Wowzers!: @FrickWinifred/ @BatConIntl
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Cool Bat Fact #10
How on earth can #bats hang upside down?? There's a special tendon in their feet that locks in place; they have to use energy to let go. You can find dead bats still hanging, like this one I found!
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question668.htm
@HowStuffWorks
![[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #10How on earth can #bats hang upside down?? There's a special tendon in their feet that locks in place; they have to use energy to let go. You can find dead bats still hanging, like this one I found! https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question668.htm @HowStuffWorks](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqh1H3ZVoAcGIoT.jpg "[Tweet by @BatsForLife]Cool Bat Fact #10How on earth can #bats hang upside down?? There's a special tendon in their feet that locks in place; they have to use energy to let go. You can find dead bats still hanging, like this one I found! https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question668.htm @HowStuffWorks")
Cool Bat Fact #10
How on earth can #bats hang upside down?? There's a special tendon in their feet that locks in place; they have to use energy to let go. You can find dead bats still hanging, like this one I found!
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question668.htm
@HowStuffWorks
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That’s it for today’s thread on Cool Bat Facts! (There are SO many more but we’d be here forever, haha)
Here’s the full unrolled thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1344417108545863685.html
#Bats #BatConservation #BatFacts
That’s it for today’s thread on Cool Bat Facts! (There are SO many more but we’d be here forever, haha)
Here’s the full unrolled thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1344417108545863685.html
#Bats #BatConservation #BatFacts
