#DailyBat Mauritian Tomb Bat

The fluffiest looking of the tomb bats!

Just like other tomb bats, they help with pest control and have a wide range of habitats from subarid scrub to the semi-tropical savanna, and they live throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara

#DailyBat The Black-bearded tomb bat

Another tomb bat!! I love these guys. Its species name, melanopogon, comes from the ancient Greek words: “mélās" meaning "black" and "pṓgōn" meaning "beard". But only the males have the black chin fur and it’s only seasonal-

#DailyBat Theobald’s Tomb Bat

All tomb bats in general get their name because they like roosting in walls of tombs, old burial sites and old temple ruins. But they do also roost outside and in trees as well. They live in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam-

#DailyBat The Long-toothed pipistrelle

First trapped in 1997 but wasn’t described till 2014 due to bat researchers having to gather more evidence and compare specimens to determine if it truly was a new finding, which it was, this cutie has the longest biggest fangs out of all its relatives!-

#DailyBat The Giant golden-crowned flying fox

Since I posted the smallest bat in the world yesterday I’ll now share the biggest bat! The Giant golden-crowned flying fox has a 5 to 6 foot wingspan and weighs up to 3.5 lbs! They use their big wings to fan themselves when it’s hot and wrap themselves-

#DailyBat The Bumblebee Bat/Kitti's hog-nosed bat aka the smallest bat in the world and one of the tiniest living mammals ever!!! They weigh only about a penny or paper clip and are no bigger than 29–33 mm 🥹

#DailyBat The Pied butterfly bat

Sometimes known as the panda bat or badger bat, they are extremely rare (their population status is at Least Concern though) and not much is known about their behavior and personalities since they are hard to find. They belong to the group called Vesper bat who are-

#DailyBat - Because it’s the Halloween month I’m going to bring some awareness to the dark exploitation many bats face, and The painted woolly bat is one of very high risk. This beautiful and colorful bat from South and Southeast Asia is near-threatened due to not only environmental concerns and-

#DailyBat The Buettikofer's Epauletted Fruit Bat

They get mixed up with the hammerhead fruit bat, both having huge heads, but they’re different and also a littler smaller. The males also don’t honk like the hammerhead fruit bats I don’t think lol. They’re just gentle fruit eating creatures

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#DailyBat The Hairless Bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) also known as the naked bulldog bat and the greater naked bat.

You can really see how much skin bats have underneath all their fluffy fur when looking at one with minimal fur. And this skin plays a big role in providing them with the ability to-

#DailyBat The Visored Bat

They’re a very rare fruit bat from South America and are the only species in the genus Sphaeronycteris, although some scientists think it might be related to the wrinkled face bat. Their appearance is all for specific purposes, like their cute skin folds under their chin-

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#DailyBat The Syconycteris Hobbit Bat 💚

This tiny nectar feeding bat has a very fitting name as you can see the fur on its feet, and they’re not many pictures of them because they haven’t been caught that many times (apparently, that’s the only information I could find). They were named this by-

#DailyBat: Grey headed flying Fox

They’re the largest bat species in Australia, which they are native to, having a wingspan of over 1 meter which helps them fly up to 10 miles each night in search for food. They look extra fury for a flying fox bc their fur goes all the way down to their ankle-

#DailyBat: The Pygmy fruit-eating bat!

They love to roost in banana leaves 🍃

#DailyBat: The hammerheaded fruit bat

They live in West and Central Africa and the due to their head being three times larger than the females, and their larynx also being bigger, the males make a loud honking sound. They also have very strong tongues which helps them extract the juices-

#DailyBat Livingstone's fruit bat

They are the rarest mega bat in the world and only a little over a thousand of these endangered beauties remain today due to deforestation, and they live in the Anjouan and Mohéli islands.

#DailyBat The Wrinkle-faced bat

This uncommon to rare bat has such a strong jaw it can bite through unripe fruit and even seeds, and that is thanks to its short wide skull giving it the strongest jaw force of all bats its size. They’re classified as a leaf-nosed bat even though its folded skin is-

#DailyBat The Honduran white bat

These tiny little rare and hard to spot guys are about an inch-inch and a half in size (one of the tiniest bats ever!) and weigh only 6g, and because of their specific habitual needs they live only in the lowland rainforests of eastern Honduras, northern Nicaragua-