#Cuban Funnel-eared Bat

[loveisinthebat]

Zubat SCREAM

[pikayuarts]

So I did an Animal Sketchtember challenge through the last month to help break me outta my slump and these are my favorites.

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Cuban Greater Funnel-eared Bat (Natalus primus)

(Photo from Zoological Society of London)

Conservation Status- Vulnerable

Habitat- Western Cuba

Size (Weight/Length)- 50 mm

Diet- Flying insects

Cool Facts- Upon first glance, this flying ball of fluff doesn’t look like much. Then you realize it’s a Cuban greater funnel-eared bat and the entire room starts cheering. Due to a mix of introduced predators and white-nose syndrome wiping out entire colonies, these bats were declared extinct in 1919. In 1992, a single cave in a tiny island off the coast of western Cuba was discovered to have a few hundred individuals. Today, conservationists are racing against the clock to find a cure for white-nose syndrome and eliminating all predators from the bat’s islands.

Rating- 13/10 (Every individual counts.)

[todaysbat]

hi! i have a question. do you know what kind of bat this is? i keep reverse image searching this picture and every single source i find that has this image is about the cuban funnel-eared bat or the jamaican funnel-eared bat but i KNOW that's not what this is lol it clearly has a leaf nose

image description: photo of a brown bat staring straight at the viewer

I did my own image search--I used this site and found the possible original source of the image using tin-eye thru it. It's a site that no longer exists, but the file name of the image identified the bat as a pygmy round-eared bat (Lophostoma brasiliense).

image description: photo of a dark brown bat that sort of looks like the bat pictured above image source: wikipedia

Which maybe? The color variation doesn't disqualify it from being the same species (there's several explanations that can explain it away).

[nostrem]

What is the cute little muppet bat in your blog’s profile pic called

its a cuban greater funnel eared bat <3

[itsabee]

oc reveal ⁉️⁉️

Embarrassing thing to post on my horror/creepypasta blog, but this is my Tokyo Mew Mew oc Creme 💀💀💀💀

I haven’t finished the sheet for her “mew mew” form but the whole thing is that she has a soul connection to the Cuban greater funnel eared bat :) her hair is inspired by the cute fluffy face they have, she has small eyes normally covered by her hair (not in the character sheet tho) and is legally blind and forgets to wear her glasses a lot and is clumsy. She has ADHD and narcolepsy and is a lesbian. She has a whole team of younger girls who all look up to her and her girlfriend is also a mew mew!

[rhan-hastur]

LGBaTs part two, as requested! 🦇🏳️‍🌈 Based on the following: MLM  -> Sucker-footed bat Intersex -> Greater mouse-tailed bat Genderqueer -> Horseshoe bat Genderfluid -> Jamaican fruit bat Agender -> Ghost bat Bigender -> Cuban greater funnel-eared bat Polyamorous -> Fisherman bat Omnisexual -> Chapin’s free-tailed bat Part 1

[shads-art]

COMPLETELY FORGOT TO POST THIS YESTERDAY

pearl (left, they/them, based off of a cuban greater funnel eared bat) and bangle (right, she/her, based off of kitti’s hognosed bat)!!

gotta love lesbians! i got two requests for rouges parents so i hope i didnt disappoint B)

more coming soon! i currently have requests for knuckles, infinites, and tails’ parents next so if you wanna request something please make sure its someone else!

if u ask me if pearl was based off of blue pearl from su ill beat you up

[dendroica]

Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics - Yale E360

Biologists have long recognized the value of recording sound to identify animals and learn about their behavior. For example, the first recordings of marine mammals – of beluga whales in Canada in 1949 – led to an ongoing explosion of whale research. The transition from analog tape to digital recording has shrunk recorders’ size and increased their quality, helping to establish the research fields of bioacoustics and ecoacoustics over the past several decades. Scientists are learning enormous amounts about how species interact with each other and the environment through sound, such as how urban birds are evolving to sing louder and at a higher pitch than their rural counterparts.

Audio recorders are in a sense better than cameras because they can record species over far larger areas, said Aide. But the use of autonomous environmental audio recorders has been constrained because of cost. Commercial models can run $500 to $1,000 because there’s not been a large, non-specialist market for them. Manually identifying bird, frog, or insect species’ songs on a recording from an area that may host hundreds of species is also skilled, time-consuming work. This has limited most acoustic research to single species or small areas.

Recent technical breakthroughs are changing that. First, cheap audio recorders, designed specifically to monitor animals, are now available. Aide showed me a small recorder about the size of a credit card and the thickness of a pack of cigarettes, an AudioMoth. Developed by a British research group called Open Acoustic Devices and first made available in late 2017, it’s only $70, power-efficient, and open source, meaning the hardware design and associated software are freely available.

The AudioMoth can record everything from extremely low-frequency gunshots to extremely high-frequency bat vocalizations that are far beyond the range of human hearing. Users can build their own weatherproof enclosures or, if they’re prepared to accept a slight loss in audio quality, simply place the device in a disposable ziploc bag and tie it to a tree. About 9,000 AudioMoths have already been sold, sales divided about equally between researchers, conservation organizations, and private individuals. A miniaturized version, the μMoth, has just been announced; it weighs a mere 5 grams and could be mounted on a living bird.

AudioMoths have been used to map the foraging habitat of the Cuban greater funnel-eared bat, an endemic species that roosts only in a single cave, and are being used to search for the New Forest cicada, an insect that’s thought to be extinct in Britain. (The cicada has not been heard there since 2000.) It’s also been used to detect poachers’ gunshots in jungles in Belize.

[theneteconomy]

When It Comes to Conservation, Are Ugly Animals a Lost Cause? | Smithsonian

When It Comes to Conservation, Are Ugly Animals a Lost Cause? | Smithsonian

Very popular species attract the most wildlife conservation funding. But what about the Nimba otter shrew, the Cuban greater funnel-eared bat or other threatened yet obscure species? And don’t all imperiled green spaces, not just the homes of snow leopards and orangutans, deserve attention? Source: When It Comes to Conservation, Are Ugly Animals a Lost Cause? | Science | Smithsonian

[actually-richard-speight]

Thank you for the tag, @sakoglou!

Rules: Enter your answers then tag 10 people! Use the first letter of your name to answer each question. Real answers only. If the person who tagged you has the same initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use the same word twice.

Name: Catherine

A four letter word: Chez

A boy’s name: Charles

An occupation: Concierge

Something you can wear: Corset

A food: Caviar

Something you find in a bathroom:  Campylobacter (look it up)

A place: Cagliari, Italy  

A reason for being late: Cat ran away

Something you shout: Chill

A movie title: Casablanca

Something you drink: Champaigne

An animal: Cuban greater funnel-eared bat

A type of car: Corvette

Title of a song: “Come Fly With Me” by Frank Sinatra

Tagging: I don’t tag, sorry!

[loveisinthebat]

Zubat, But real

[loveisinthebat]

Zubat IRL

[loveisinthebat]

Tiny Screm

[loveisinthebat]

Zubat IRL

[itsabee]

hey so this might be a weird question, but what is the creature in your quotev pfp? is it a bat?

YES IT IS‼️‼️ ITS MY FAVORITE BAT EVER, THE CUBAN GREATER FUNNEL EARED BAT‼️‼️‼️

I LOVE THEM