Lasionycteris Noctivagans - Blog Posts

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

(This is the last of it, I promise)

Part 2 of flapflap friends, for anyone who might have wanted to see the little guy actually flap. Bats have very neat locomotion! (Also, for any nervous parties, I’m vaccinated against rabies and this little guy’s mouth did not come near my bare skin at any point. I took a glove off to shoot this video, which i wasn’t supposed to do, but there was very low risk here.)

A hungry silverhaired flapflap is fed by a very bad volunteer who didn’t wear a glove like she is supposed to. Don’t tell her boss.

Silver Haired bat, via

Got any adorable photos of Lasionycteris noctivagans? P.S.: a related question; are LANO capable of taking off from the ground, or are they a 'must drop to fly' bat species?

image description: a black bat with white-tipped fur being held with wings outstretched by a researcher wearing blue latex gloves. image source: Larisa Bishop-Boros, via wikipedia

Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) Technically all bats can take off from the ground, however, most species can not do it very well*, and the silver-haired bat is no exception to that.

*There's only a couple species that are known to be good at taking off from the ground: the common vampire bat, the pallid bat, and the New Zealand short-tailed bats.

behold this smug vespertilionidae

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