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‎08-21-2021 01:42 AM
I am fascinated by bats and have been for years! I think they're cool little creatures and yes environmentally necessary.
When I visited Austin nearly 30 years ago I made a point of doing the bats at dusk. My cousin who had been there his entire adult life had never bothered! Lol
Half 1 million female bats fly up from Mexico every year in April and have their babies under the Congress Street bridge and leave in October numbering about 1,000,000 and a 1/2! Every evening you can watch them as they come out from under the bridge at dusk. It's like they are choreographed! They take turns coming out 1 end, you can see them hovering waiting their turn, until the air is filled with Mexican free tails. It's definitely something to experience if you're ever in Austin during those months.
I watched a Jeff Corwin show years ago where he was visiting a bat sanctuary in New Zealand I believe it was. He rescued a young bat orphaned in the wild and was taking it back to the sanctuary. They were in the back of a jeep and cuddling!! I almost died! So cute. These were the really big fruit bats that they refer to as flying foxes
‎08-21-2021 06:17 AM
That must be incredible to watch! I never knew about that.
Bats can be very cute. They can't help it if "they have a face only a mother could love" lol.
I've learned to appreciate them through my youngest daughter who ever since she was young and wrote a detailed report about bats in third grade, has thought bats were unique,
special, valuable, and yes cute!
I remember asking her, so what made you want to do a report about bats honey? You know trying to be that openminded mom instead of feeling sort of Morticia-ish talking to little Wednesday!
Though she admits that there are some that are not so cute with as she says "a face only a mother could love."
I had one fly over me a few nights ago.
Loved your story!
Bats unite!
But really, "all creatures great and small"💞
‎08-21-2021 07:00 AM
I'm having a really hard time thinking of baby bats as "pups"! Yuck! I know that bats are helpful to the enviroment but they all just give me the creeps and I don't want to be near any of them --- big or small! Possums are very creepy looking but at least they don't fly and dart around your head!
‎08-21-2021 07:11 AM
Lol! I get it You made me laugh this morning-cute post😄
‎08-21-2021 09:46 AM
I think baby bats are called "cute." How could someone dislike them?
‎08-21-2021 09:49 AM
Ugliness and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. All Nature's creatures have their jobs to do to keep our beautiful planet spinning.
‎08-21-2021 07:32 PM
Possums eat tons of insects (and it may be literally tons)!
‎08-21-2021 08:03 PM
Battons?
‎08-21-2021 10:18 PM
@SilleeMee wrote:Possums look like rats to me. Some bats have dog faces which I think are cute, however, there are some very scary-looking bats, too...really scary.
I think the dog faced bats you're thinking of are called fruit bats or flying foxes. They're quite large and they think they play a role in the Ebola virus. I doubt that they bother humans and that they eat fruit.
‎08-21-2021 10:27 PM
Sign me up as a possum lover. Anything that reduces the # of ticks is a GOOD thing.
They take such care of their babies. We have one who lives under our back porch, must have been generations of them, but we only see one at a time.
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