#greater horseshoe bat

[vintagewildlife]

Greater horseshoe bat chasing a moth By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[loveisinthebat]

Alerted!

[transgender-chiroptera]

Greater Horseshoe Bat, via Wildwoodtrustuk

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Though still rare, signs suggest that numbers of greater horseshoe bats are rising in the UK

Images: Shutterstock

A common pipistrelle bat

Close-up of a lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros)

[bat-identifier]

-Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) -Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (Micropteropus pussilus) -Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus) -Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) -Some kind of Myotis (possibly a Natterer's bat?) -Greater (?) Horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) -Pallas's Long-tonged bat (Glossophaga soricina) (Possibly a different Long-tonged bat, but I found the image source and this is how they labelled it, so...) -Southeastern Myotis (Myotis austroriparius) (or perhaps a different, similar myotis) (they all look the goddamn same!!!! lol) -Seba's Short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) (potentially a different new world leaf nosed bat, the image source I could find very unhelpfully just labelled it a 'leaf nosed bat')

Bats 🦇

[lovecraftian-frog]

This colony was quite unique ! It was a colony of more than 200 bats from two species : Greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and Notch-eared bat (Myotis emarginatus).

The horseshoe bat family is quite easy to recognize thanks to their very developped nose-leaf which allows them to make a particular sound. From afar, it is funny to see them turn their head around, trying to locate you and see if you're a threat or not. Horsheshoe bats are called lucifuge, they flee from the light. That's why it is important to limit the public lighting !

Contrarly to popular belief, bats are not blind and in fact have a similar if not better eyesight than human in half-lighted environments.

[bonefall]

sorry if you've talked about this before, but I'm curious if clanmew have different words for different bat species? they obviously differentiate insects and birds, but bat's are harder to distinguish at a glance. cats would have an advantage with their hearing, being able to hear bat's squeaks (and I think different species make different patterns and sounds?) but like. I don't remember how many bat species there are here (I think noctule, pipistrelle, greater horseshoe, lesser horseshoe, daubenton's, whiskered, barbastelle, and serotine? I mightve missed a couple), but I love bat's so thought I'd ask. pipistrelle are the most common though I'm from the south-east of England so I occasionally see daubenton's too.

FOUR bat species! Over here in the main entry for birds, check there if you'd like more trivia on them. Clan cats count them as very special, blessed songbirds.

The ones that Clan cats have words for so far;

Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) = Popep

Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) = Ipi'ip

Long-eared Brown Bat (Plecotus auritus) = Fepfr

Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula) = Shi'po

There are four more kinds of bat, for EIGHT total in this region, that I have not yet described because I don't have good access to their song recordings (Even the main four were ass on butts to hunt down) If you have clear recordings of the songs of these four I'll add them too.

Pipistrellus nathusii

Nyctalus leisleri

Myotis daubentonii

Myotis nattereri

[tendervulture]

Mounty concepts (almost certainly not his final form). Based off greater horseshoe bat.

[loveisinthebat]

Anxious Smile

[transgender-chiroptera]

Greater (?) Horseshoe bat, via

[battlevann]

misc fun facts about my OC's

Novo(caine) is ambidextrous but uses his left hand more often than his right. He also whittles in his free time.

The splinter of the greater entity Death, Or death for short, is member of church that is focused on reforming demon's (and angels, there are demons in heaven just as there are angels in hell, being one or the other doesn't automatically give you a designated spot) but no can tell if she's a priest, nun, or a secret third thing

Novo calls that splinter Mortis on occasion

Most splinters of Death and Life don't actually interact, even if they are there at the same time they just kind of do their thing separately

Lilith is based off a Blyth's horseshoes bat, granting her the ability to go about during the day with only slight irritation from the sun

she was born a vampire

Anastasia is based off of a fruit bat, granting her the ability to survive extended periods of time without needing blood by eating fruit

she was turned

[megabat-nerd]

Hii! I’m very happy I found your blog cuz bats are my favourite animal! Sorry if you’ve answered this before, but what’s your favourite bat? Mine is the ghost bat!!

Oh gosh, I couldn’t pick just one!! But some standouts who I have a special place in my heart for:

Any megadermatid! They just look super cool to me…

Common noctules! The first bat I ever identified in flight :]

And horseshoes, specifically greater horseshoes! There’s a colony near me!

I’m glad that you enjoy my blog, thank you for the ask!! <3

[animal71154]

okokok i wanna make a list of interesting animals that i like and some of which i have trouble remembering sometimes. i will edit this over time. ok. i thought we would be able to do readmores on mobile by now but apparently not. ok (i also always forget the word reconcile so that can be here too)

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MARSUPIALS common brushtail possum, quoll, tasmanian devil, thylacine, cuscus (common spotted cuscus, sulawesi bear cuscus, silky cuscus), opossum (white-eared opossum, four-eyed opossum, yapok/water opossum), tree kangaroo, glider (greater glider, yellow-bellied glider)

RODENTS rat, mouse, nutria, Gambian pouched rat, capybara, Brazilian porcupine, jerboa (long-eared jerboa), chinchilla, vizcacha

MUSTELIDS ferret, weasel, stoat, marten (yellow-throated marten), skunk (spotted skunk), mink, greater hog badger

PRIMATES tarsier, aye aye, ring tailed lemur, japanese macaque, gelada, marmoset (pygmy marmoset), capuchin, spider monkey (red-faced spider monkey), howler monkey, white-faced saki

VIVERRIDS binturong, civet (owston's palm civet, African civet, banded palm civet), linsang, genet

PROCYONIDS kinkajou, coati, ringtail/cacomistle, raccoon

HOGS wild boar (really been enjoying these lately) , red river hog, pygmy hog

FELINES margay, rusty-spotted cat, black-footed cat, asiatic golden cat, bornean bay cat, little spotted cat/oncilla, jaguarundi, sandcat, lynx, bobcat, caracal, serval, fishing cat, pallas' cat

ANTEATERS tamandua, giant anteater, silky anteater, pangolin

LAPINES rabbit (flemish giant rabbit, sumatran striped rabbit, Netherland dwarf broken chocolate colour (someone said i would be this if i was a bunny)), hare

OTHER MAMMALS fossa, mongoose (yellow mongoose, common slender mongoose), elephant shrew (black and rufous elephant shrew), treeshrew, colugo, spotted hyena, antelope (oryx, roan antelope), honduran white bat

FISH eel (New Zealand longfin eel, moray eel, gulper eel), black ghost knife fish

ARACHNIDS jumping spider, house spider, daddy long legs, huntsman spider, tarantula, camel spider, tailless whip scorpion, horseshoe crab

OTHER INVERTEBRATES snail (giant African snail), slug, slater/pill bug, isopod, praying mantis, bee (honeybee, bumble bee), moth, millipede, centipede, earwig, beetle, sand hopper

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ok now im tired and im going to go to bed. i will readmore this tomorrow when im on the computer maybe. goodnight

[bat-identifier]

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From left to right:

-Wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex) -Visored bat (Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum) -Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale) -Lesser Bulldog bat (Noctilio albiventris) -Florida Bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus) -Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) -Ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla) -Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus) -Eastern Tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni) -Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) -Brown Long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) (or possibly another member of Plecotus) -Black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) -Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas) -Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) -Pied Butterfly Bat (Glauconycteris superba) -Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) -Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) -Northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) -Northern Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) -Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) juvenile -Greater long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis)

I'm pretty confident on all of these except the Northern Myotis because they pretty much All Look Like That.

I’ve decided that all bats fall somewhere on this horrid little graph I’ve devised. Here are some prime examples of the various Creature Varieties found in nature.

[lovecraftian-frog]

I love bats !

Here are some that I've seen back in June and July 2023. We captured them to locate their colony in order to better understand and protect the bats from the region I was working in.

Here you have a colony of greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis) in the attic of a church (the grey one in the middle is a young one), a female greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolopus ferrumequinum), and a female western barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus).

It was important to catch females because they are the one meeting in colonies to raise their youngs. The colonies can nest in buildings (church, houses or city halls, ...), in constructions (mines, bridges, ...) or in natural cavities (holes in trees, caves, ...).

/!\ All species of bats are protected in France, do not touch them unless you have the authorizations (which I had when I captured them) /!\