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aw, nice, thanks for the bat friend!

Also, to add to the cool bat facts listed above... https://batworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/free-tails-smell-like-tacos.pdf

May I humbly request a bat friend?

Happy Bat Week!

Your bat is the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)!

Oh gosh. This bat, man. One of the most agriculturally important species in the U.S. These guys live in MASSIVE colonies in the southern U.S.; there are 1.5 million living under Congress Ave Bridge in Austin, Texas and another 20 million (YEAH. TWENTY MILLION HOLY CRAP.) living in Bracken Cave, which is considered to be the largest colony of bats of any species living anywhere in the world. BONKERS. Not only do these bats live in huge colonies, but they are also the fastest flying animals, clocking in at just under 100mph (hawks only reach the speeds they do by diving; these bats reach 100mph USING ACTUAL MECHANICAL FLIGHT. DO YOU REALIZE HOW BONKERS THAT IS?????). During birthing season, mothers will leave their massive roosts to go hunt insects. They will fly up to 50km away to hunt. When they return, they are able to find their pups in a crowd of literal millions by the sounds of their voices. Do you know what a huge colony in a cave also means? Guano. Lots of it. And you know what guano means? High levels of ammonia. In a cave. The levels are so high that you physically cannot enter Bracken Cave without a respirator. So how do the bats survive? WELL. They have evolved to be able to change the amounts of CO2 in their blood via respiratory mucous to protect against blood pH changes. AND!!!!!!!!! THEY KNOW HOW TO VENTILATE THEIR CAVES. They fly in a circular motion as they leave and enter the cave to move the air and ventilate out some of the ammonia.

Madagascar Sucker-Footed Bat, photographed by Manuel Ruedi, (source)

To expand on this; RIP the hypothetical roommate/dormmate/etc. that attempts to harm/kill a bat that flies into their house/dorm/apt.

Or the landlord/neighbor/etc. that calls in an exterminator after a group of bats (maybe even a maternity colony, or possibly a over-winter hibernating group of myotines/Eptesicus fusscuss) temporarily moves into the attic space. Or maybe that individual is preparing to handle the situation themselves with DIY/COTS chemical weapons, either after calling an exterminator ("sorry, sir, but we're legally restricted from evicting a maternity colony during pup season") or already having knowledge of such legislation, knowing that no proper 'pest-control' service will do anything here, and yet still deciding to go through with the purge on their own...

I feel like Gregor grows up to be ready and willing to punch a human at all times but refuses to kill spiders or roaches.

Friend Stack

behold this smug vespertilionidae

Majestic Lump

“ come on guys we have to follow the magical trail trough the leaves !!! " 

...cats be like this. Entirely our fault for trying to block their view of the outdoors.

What do you mean you didn’t order more bats?

(This is the last of it, I promise)