When it is dark, humans like to use well-lit streets but bats prefer to use dark areas. Urban planning should accomodate both.

#bats #lightpollution

https://www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-release/urban-bats-avoid-street-lights-when-commuting-between-their-roosts-and-foraging-grounds.html

Beauties#Chiroptères #chauves-souris #bats #chauvessouris #chauvesouris

Sourdough bat

https://lemmy.world/post/39341935

@c_dan4th you’ve asked the right person! Each closure has an environmental impact study performed prior to designing the closure method. If it’s determined that the opening may be supportive for bats, it will have a ladder-style grate placed on the opening. Lets bats in, keeps people out. Colorado has led the way in bat-friendly mine closures! The first one in the state went in around 1994 I think. Here’s a sign I designed which has been going up on recent projects.
#bats

#Berlin not only boasts numerous lakes but also #waterways, both artificial and natural, all of which are sites of considerable #aquatic #biodiversity. My photos show the #BerlinSpandau #ShipCanal near the #Westhafen (a #harbor). C. C. Voigt et al. (2019) demonstrated the importance these waterways for terrestrial animals as well, namely e.g. #bats, which use #waterbodies and vegetated areas to bypass #artificiallight routes
©#StefanFWirth 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00942-4

#Photos
S.F.Wirth

Sunday blep

https://lemmy.world/post/39202223

#Bats 🦇 are super seed dispersers in #forests all over the world. Discover how the straw-coloured fruit #bat is saving #Africa's forests. Yet they're endangered by #deforestation. Help them and go #vegan #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect

http://palmoildetectives.com/2025/10/19/fruit-bats-super-seed-dispersers-growing-african-forests/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Indian Flying Fox Speedpaint. Fruit Farmer.

#Bat #Bats #Baturday #Portrait #FurryArt #Art #DigitalArt #Speedpaint

Nice "Ultrasonic Youth" sticker by @macareux on Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/1892100563/sticker-chauve-souris-ultrasonic-youth

#bats #sonicyouth #sticker

Tidy bat

https://reddthat.com/post/54616480

In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was amongst the first to propose the existence of a #magnetic sense. His speculation proved correct; many #animals – from #bats to #migratory #birds and sea #turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate.
#Zoology #Neuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/zoo11212501.html

Yooooo, the Bat Conservation International 2026 calendar is now available on their store! I'm sure a lot of my #goth followers would find it quite befitting for their aesthetic and it supports a good cause! #bats
https://shop.batcon.org/products/2026-calendar-staff-photography

Medieval bats were said to hang in groups like grapes in high places and if one bat fell, all the bats fell. This pair of bats is from the Worksop Beastiary (c1185). #medievalmanuscripts #medievalbeasts #bat #bats

Swine acute #diarrhea syndrome #coronavirus-related viruses from #bats show potential #interspecies infection, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/11/swine-acute-diarrhea-syndrome.html

Old iron handrails in a copper mine.

Bats love hibernating by hanging off those!

#bats

Compilation of Detox Doodles!

This is my daily sketching habit in an effort to curb mindless scrolling.

My favorites are the Kiwi Birds and the Beavers (also the anteater hug)!

#art #bats #anteater #koala #seagull #bird #beaver #kiwi #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

If their blood was drawn using a thistle, it was supposed to be able to cure snakebite. This bat is from the Lutterell Psalter (c1325-1340). #medievalmanuscripts #medievalbeasts #bat #bats
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