#White winged vampire bat

[cannibalhellhound]

Bats are baby and I love them all

@loveisinthebat thought you might appreciate these after the like spam

close ups under the cut ✌🏼

[loveisinthebat]

She SCREM

[little-creature-of-the-day]

little creature of the day: white winged vampire bat

spooky

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[descendinight]

Nuryniìth之家🩸｛地震吓到我了 没能按自己的意愿完成。。

[astral-veil]

[transgender-chiroptera]

Can you share some of your favorite bat facts? I wanna add more to my lil arsenal of cool random facts. :]

Of course! Apologies for the late response, I saw this at like 1am four days ago, forgot everything I knew about bats, and then fell asleep and only remembered I even got this ask today. Anyways! Some bat facts :)

Common Vampire bats are some of my absolute favourites, mostly because of their ability to run on the ground! They can gallop with their forelimbs and take off from the ground by leaping into the air and catapulting themselves with their wings, which is speculated to be how Pterodactyls took off as well! Most bats cannot take off from the ground, and must be elevated to take flight, so this is pretty cool. Makes sense too, since they mostly feed from the ankles of large mammals and so need ground maneuverability!

Here's a video of a vamp taking off, and here's a video of one walking around! I think their skittery movements and lil' faces are just the CUTEST, but I know I'm probably in the minority there. Also there's a large dish of blood in the second video, so fair warning there!

All three true Vampire bats have evolved special grooves in their mouths in order to act as a gutter of sorts to funnel the blood into their mouths, but the exact arrangement differs between them. The Hairy-Legged Vampire bat has a groove along the roof of the mouth, whereas the White-Winged and Common Vampire bats have lingual grooves under the tounge! Speaking of White-Winged Vampire bats, they're the only bats in the world with 22 teeth, for some reason (likely no reason since the molars are vestigial), AND they have scent glands in their mouths that might be used to deter predators. Pretty cool stuff!

Finally, all three species of true Vampire Bats are cute as hell. Look at these lil' guys!!

(left to right- White-winged, Hairy-legged, and Common Vampire bats!)

[daily-batposting]

White-Winged Vampire Bat, photographed by Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes, (source)

[comixqueen]

Happy repostober! Starting with this white-winged vampire bat from March Mammal Madness 2021

Still a favorite piece!

[benk52]

Clash!

Quick sketch

[sangvinaria]

ppl are way too good at guessing my fursonas. or maybe im just predictable.

[mealwife]

that part abt how diverse bats are is so real and cool to me like they really have such a variety in faces from the canyon bat to the flying fox to honduran white bat. and its so cool too look at them and think ou what hes gonna use that for. looking at the sword nosed bat like what DO you need that fir why would u need that nose and not any other bat. idk its so cool bats are fucking sick And shout out white winged vampire bat

YA YA exactly bc theres like. genuinely so many different looking bats its so funny ill defend them w my life. why does this need to be in nature? i dont know but its silly so whatevrr

[loveisinthebat]

Baby Vampire

[witheredarchives]

[bagelsoep]

Hmmmm vampire girl OC. Don't know her name yet but she could friends with that cat human hybrid oc I made

Or maybe she could be in another OC story I guess. I'm not sure I'll think about it

[bat-identifier]

White-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi)

[transgender-chiroptera]

White-winged Vampire Bats (and bird), via