#Daubenton's Bat

[loveisinthebat]

SING

[transgender-chiroptera]

Daubenton's Bat (?), via

[todaysbat]

How do Bats Hunt Their Prey?| Top Bat | BBC Earth

warning: flashing lights maybe?

[antiqueanimals]

The New Natural History. Written by Richard Lydekker. 1901.

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 2022 - Day 3 - Bat

Oh man. How can Inktober do this to me? One day to draw my favourite animal? AND THERE AR ESO MANY TO PICK FROM. AAAA.

Oh well, here is what I started (yes there are a few bonuses).

This is a' lil selection of a few UK bats! I did do a few training courses over covid about bat care and how to identify bat roosts. Had I more time, I may have done little paintings of all 15 species, but here is a selection of the first few that popped into my head.

[tsukimagi]

Bonjour à tous !

Aujourd'hui je vous propose de découvrir la fiche du Murin de Daubenton ! ✨

C'est une espèce que l'on retrouve par exemple au-dessus des plans d'eau !

J'ai de beaux souvenirs associés à cette espèce : lorsque j'étais en stage dans les Vosges du Nord, j'ai pu l'observer plusieurs fois virevolter au-dessus de différents lacs l'été 🌄

Je pense que vous l'aurez compris au cours de ces différents posts, chaque saison est propice à une activité en lien avec les demoiselles de la nuit !

Durant l'été, on cherche à connaître les lieux où les femelles vont se regrouper en maternité pour élever leur unique petit de l'année (les mâles sont plus solitaires et dispersés). On se met donc à prospecter activement tous les lieux qui réunissent les critères préférés d'une espèce (combles pour certaines, sous les tuiles pour d'autres,...) Certains lieux sont parfois très atypiques, comme cette petite colonie de Murins de Daubenton qui avait décidé que leurs quartiers d'été seraient... sous une plaque d'égout ! 💦

Les chauves-souris savent toujours nous surprendre~

Je vous dit à demain pour la dernière petite fiche de cette série ! Si vous avez envie que j'aborde un sujet en particulier n'hésitez pas !🦇

[jruthphipps]

Sometimes I take an extra walk after the gym and stop by Melksham Town Bridge to watch bats swoop around the river. The bat walk I attended recently said they're Daubenton's.

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Under the most ambitious climate change mitigation scenario, food production is expected to decline by up to 25%,” the report reads. “Ambitious combinations of measures, including reducing food waste, using arable land to grow crops for direct human consumption rather than livestock feed (and thus implying a dietary change), and increased productivity on remaining farmland, could fully mitigate expected reductions in food production.” After the UK left the EU, farmers were no longer part of the Common Agricultural Policy subsidies scheme, which paid land managers according to the acreage they farmed. Instead the devolved nations have set up their own farming payments system. In England, this is the sometimes controversial Environment Land Management Scheme (ELMS), which pays farmers to make room for nature by letting hedges grow wilder, or sowing wildflowers for birds and bees on field margins. Anecdotally, farmers taking part in the schemes have noticed more wildlife, but until now no data has been available. The new government studies found that more mobile creatures, such as butterflies, moths and hoverflies, fared better when larger areas of land – a large farm or multiple small neighbouring ones – were involved in the scheme. Surveyed squares with high levels of eco-friendly schemes in the surrounding landscape had on average 117 more butterflies (a 53% increase), compared with the average for squares with low scores for schemes in the surrounding landscape. There were an average of 12 more moth species in areas with more eco-friendly schemes. Smaller, less mobile insects were boosted in smaller, more local areas signed up to the schemes. Numbers of barbastelle and Daubenton’s bats were also found to respond positively to eco-friendly schemes at the landscape level. Martin Lines, CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, told the Guardian: “The evidence in the Natural England report confirms what many nature-friendly farmers are finding: delivering good-quality habitats, supported by public money, is helping to stop nature’s decline or even reverse it. Many farmers are pleased that their hard work is showing positive results, and with the support of well-funded ELMS, more farmers can deliver or help reverse nature’s decline.”

9 August 2024

[gabessquishytum]

@five-and-dimes @valiantstarlights thank you both for tagging me in this!

tag game: pick stuff from your room and have people vote on which one they want to take home.

No pressure tagging, sorry if you've done it before! @kydrogendragon @reluctant1lady @academicblorbo @chaosheadspace @seiya-starsniper @cuubism

[quitealotofsodapop]

What… What kind of bat is Mimimi?

Omg i love her little hands and her "cloak" of herself!!! I love her little leaf/heart nose too, reminds me of a Woobat from Pokemon. <3

referencing my horrid little bat-fairy oc Mimimi.

My idea from her came from Vesper bats and "Myotis/mouse-eared bats", which are notoriously tiny, fiesty, and are everywhere. Where I'm from, a flock of them gets mistaken for sparrows like all the time.

Theres a species in my country called Daubenton's bat, which learned how to swim in response to constantly crashing into water when chasing bugs. Ingenuity at it's finest.

Due to there being over 120+ species of known Myotis bats, Mimimi just assumes every creature she encounters is another bat until told otherwise. XD

Mimimi: "What bat is you?"

Wukong: "I'm not a bat. I'm a monkey."

Mimimi: "Whats a monkey? You fly but you're not a bird nor bug, therefore Bat."

Wukong, realising he's on his cloud: "Hard to argue with that logic."

She also takes one look at Lady Earth Flow (aka the "Golden Nosed Albino Rat/Bat Spirit") and is like (´｡• ◡ •｡`) ♡ giant bat lady.

Zhu Bajie screams that they all get rabies shots.

[loveisinthebat]

No solicitors!

[transgender-chiroptera]

Daubenton's Bat (???), via

[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

[jaketeachesdeath]

Just to show you a few Bats, these photos have been borrowed from Richard Lawrence (under licence) on flickr.

Here we have Common Pipistrelle, Brown Long Eared and Natterer's.

Out of 18 species, 12 are found here in the Birmingham and Black Country area. All three are found here. When you think about Bats locally you think about Sutton Park NNR or Dudley Castle both sites are home to 9 species each but our key site is Smestow and Wightwick in Wolverhampton with 11 species!

Leisler's, Brandt's, Nathusius's Pipistrelle and Lesser Horseshoe Bats are amongst those noted at the latter site.

@Brumbats do an awful lot of work to conserve our Bats aswell as all the important surveys and rehabilitation necessary for thier survival. They are still on the look out for Barbastelle and Bechstien's Bats which lie just outside of our grasp as a county record.

If you ever get the chance seeing Daubenton's Bats hunting over water, take it, it's a sight like no other. They are agile hunters who skim the waters surface after insects. If youre very still and quiet they'll get very close too, teamed up with a Bat detector youll recognise the almost machine gun like call.

27/04/24

[try-and-try-and-try-again]

18.07.24 - Young Darwin Scholarship Day 4

The bulk of today was devoted to rocky shores. We went to East Prawle where we were going to lay quadrats and collect data on the species present at the various coastal zones but as the data software wasn’t working we just explored. I couldn’t take in much information because my pain has been getting worse, I’ve been getting more and more tired and it’s been harder to think clearly, so this post will mainly just be brief descriptions of some of the things I saw and photographed.

1-2. A male European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

3. A lot of different seaweeds. Important information is that they are not plants and some of them, such as red seaweed, parasitise each other which is interesting. I can’t remember which species it is but one of them has bulges that look like air sacks but are in fact filled with reproductive material (I guess semen would be the closest analogue). Others do have air sacks.

4. Some sponges of which I don’t know the species - genetically and evolutionarily the closest relative of humans that can be found in a rock pool.

5. Beaded Anemone (Actinia equina)

6. Snakelocks Anemone (Anemonia viridis)

7. The ornate underside of a Cushion Star (Culcita novaeguineae)

8. Rockpool Shrimp (Palaemon elegans)

9. A Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) observed from a distance (getting too close stresses seals significantly). This was an interesting find. We didn’t see seals when we were purposely seeking them out on yesterday’s boat trip but we saw one today and the Grey Seal, with it’s characteristic long snout, is more rare on our coastlines than the Common Seal.

10. An out-of-focus Glow-Worm (Lampyris noctiluca), curiously not a worm but a beetle. There were several in the verges between the beach and field centre after we returned from our final evening campfire. We also detected bats on our bat detectors and saw them flying around, possibly Daubenton’s (Myotis daubentonii) as a population nests by the bridge. We also took one last chance to try and spot otters. At one point in the gloom I saw some large ripples and what appeared to be a dark shape but I don’t know if my eyes were playing tricks on me.

[moons-booknook]

Queer Animals

quick wiki read up

Animals that display homosexuality:

Primates- besides humans, many primates are gay. bonobos (fully bisexual), gibbons(rare), gorillas(common), orangutans(rare, observed in males), and even our closest relatives the chimpanzees (mostly male), have been seen (both male and female)

Birds- black swans(polyamory, males), albatross’(mostly female but also male), blue ducks(male), ibises(chemically induced), mallards(male leaves female for male), penguins(mostly male but also female), vultures(male), pigeons(both male and female, infertile eggs), flamingos(same as black swans). most of these species raise chicks together

dolphins- amazon dolphins, bottlenose, dolphins do not care behaviors: sexual, emotional connection. they are technically bisexual because of reproduction.

bison- american bison both males and females

bats- more than 20 species are gay. list: many flying foxes, Rafinesque's big-eared bat, bent-wing bat, serotine, bechstine, long-fingered, daubenton, little brown bat, noctule, leisler, pipistrelle, long-eared, barabastelle, horseshoe, vampire. //more common in males

elephants: sexual behavior, kissing, trunk intertwining, putting trunks in the other’s mouth, form companionships. present in both sexes.

giraffes: necking, caressing, courting, sexual behavior, more commonly to happen with 2 males than heterosexual partnerships.

marmots: species: olympic, hoary. more common in females. behaviors: nuzzling, kissing, sexual behavior

lions: nuzzling, caressing, sexual behavior. both male and female, though only in captivity in females as observed.

polecats: sexual behavior

sheep: 8-10% of rams are exclusively homosexual. behaviors: courting, sexual behavior

spotted hyena: mounting between both (especially female) sexes.

lizards: some whiptail lizard species are only female and reproduce parthenogenicly. they increase reproduction by courting and sexual activity to increase ovulation.

tortoise: oldest tortoise, jonathan is GAY and has been with his partner fredric since 1991!!!

incects: dragon flies (male), fruit flies, bed bugs

others: wallabies, antelopes, sea lions, belugas, bears (lol), deer, foxes, rats, domestic cats, domestic cattle, cheetahs, opossums, shrews, domestic dogs, donkeys, kangaroos, guinea pigs, mongeese, rabbits, elk, whales, goats, gazelle, monkeys, wolves, squirrels, hamsters, marmots, horses, rhinoceros, chipmunks, seals, ruminants in general, hedgehogs (long eared specifically stated on this list 😳 sonic????), martens, mocos, moose, zebra, mice, ox, porcupine, quokka, raccoons, tanukis, tasmanian devil, tigers, hogs,