#Lesser Woolly Bat

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This Gerard as a Lesser Woolly bat!

Small fact: The habitats that this bat lives are typically near water. Aquatic environments are generally inhabited, and when found in dryer climates such as forests or the savannah, they are generally near streams or in well watered areas!

(Today's Gerard was found on this post by @mcr-as-trinkets !)

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Mammals of Maglor’s Gap and Lothlann

Now that I’ve finished world building posts on birds for each Fëanorian realm pre Amon Ereb, I’m going through mammals next! Mammals of the March of Maedhros can be found here and my environmental world building Masterlist is here!

Maglor’s Gap was the widest break in the mountains and cliffs dividing Beleriand and the lands to the north. It lay between the blue mountains to the east and the March of Maedhros to the west. Lothlann was a wide expanse of plains to the north of the Gap. The rivers greater and little Gelion ran around the western and eastern borders.

Forest steppes: wild goat, wood bison, southern white breasted hedgehog, gray marmot, ground squirrel, dormouse, woolly hares, long eared hedgehog, gray shrews, northern hog badger, sable (rare), steppe mouse, lesser noctule (bat), wildcat, red fox, red deer

Bordering mountain fences: Caucasian Tur, mouflon, chamois, alpine pika, pond bat, marbled polecat, saiga antelope, steppe polecat, mountain weasel, ibex (rare), argali

Plains: goitered gazelle, steppe wolf, wild horse, northern water vole (by the rivers), snow vole, grey dwarf hamster, common hare, common rabbit, striped field mouse, ural field mouse, harvest mouse, mountain hare, field vole (also primarily by rivers), wild horse

World building notes:

The horse based cavalry of Maglor is one of the few details we have about this region. I headcanon that the horses in question are a mixture of the descendants of the Valinor born horses brought by the Fëanorian host as well as wild horses from Estolad, Himlad, Lothlann and the other plains regions of Eastern Beleriand.

Sheep and goats provide the majority of milk and cheese products in the Gap. Some of these species are imported from other regions like sheep from Thargelion.

Domesticated bovine are rare in Eastern Beleriand outside Thargelion and parts of Estolad. There are however wild and semi domesticated bison such as the wood bison, especially on the borders of forested and forest steppe regions. Fur, skin and bones from bison are used by both Noldorin and Avarin elves for clothing and other materials.

Wild hamsters, rabbits, hares and voles were used by a select few of Maglor’s cavalry as companions and even spies.

A regiment of foot based scouts had the sigil of a hare in the form of a light silhouette upon a black background.

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do you guys wanna see the list?

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( A )

Agalychnis callidryas, Red Eyed Tree Frog

Ambystoma mexicanum, Axolotl

Ara macao, Scarlet Macaw

Arctictis binturong, Binturong

Ardea goliath, Goliath heron

( B )

Bos grunniens, Yak

( C )

Canis latrans, Coyote

Canis lupus, Grey Wolf

Xoloitzcuintli

Ibizan Hound

Jack Russell

Chihuahua

Canis lycaon, Eastern Timber Wolf

Capra hircus, Domestic Goat

Angora Goat

Carassius auratus, Goldfish

Veil Tailed

Carcharhinus leucas, Bull Shark

Castor canadensis, North American Beaver

Cervus elaphus, Red Deer

Cheirogaleus medius, Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur

Chinchilla chinchilla, Short-tailed chinchilla

Chinchilla lanigera, Long-tailed chinchilla

Chlamyphorus truncatus, Pink fairy armadillo

Curculio nucum, Nut Weevil

Cyclopes didactylus, Silky Anteater

Cynopterus brachyotis, Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

( D )

Dama dama, European Fallow Deer

Didelphis virginiana, Virginia Opossum

Dipodomys compactus, Gulf Coast Kangaroo Rat

( E )

Equus ferus caballus, Domestic Horse

American Bashkir Curly

Equus africanus somaliensis, Somali Wild Ass

(H) Equus ferus caballus-africanus asinus, Mule

Equus zebra, Mountain Zebra

Euprenolepis procera, “Harvester Ant”

( F )

Felis catus, Domestic Cat

Sphinx Cat

Scottish Fold

Snowshoe Cat

Norwegian Forest Cat

Felis margarita, Sand Cat

( G )

Gallus gallus domesticus, Domestic Chicken

Vorwerk

Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Western Lowland Gorilla

( H )

Hippopotamus amphibius, Common Hippopotamus

Homo sapien, Human

Hydrurga leptonyx, Leopard seal

Hylobates lar, Lar Gibbon

( I )

Inia geoffrensis, Amazon River Dolphin

( L )

Lagothrix lagothricha, Common Woolly Monkey

Lama pacos, Alpaca

Lepus americanus, Snowshoe Hare

Lepus californicus, Black Tailed Jackrabbit

Linuche unguiculata, Thimble Jellyfish

Lithobates catesbeianus, American bullfrog

( M )

Megaptera novaeangliae, Humpback Whale

Meriones unguiculatus, Mongolian Gerbil

Mesocricetus auratus, Golden/Syrian Hamster

Monodon monoceros, Narwhal

Moschiola indica, Indian Spotted Chevrotain

Moschus moschiferus, Siberian Musk Deer

Mus musculus, House Mouse

Fancy Mouse

Mustela erminea, Stoat

Mustela putorius, European polecat

Mustela sibirica, Siberian Weasel

( N )

Nyctinomops macrotis, Big Free-Tailed Bat

( O )

Odocoileus hemionus, Mule Deer

Okapia johnstoni, Okapi

Ornithorhynchus anatinus, Platypus

Orycteropus afer, Aardvark

Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus, Domestic Rabbit

Giant Angora

Jersey Wooly

Osphranter antilopinus, Antilopine Kangaroo

Ovis aries, Domestic Sheep

Jacob sheep

Ovis canadensis, Big Horned Sheep

( P )

Panthera tigris tigris, Bengal Tiger

(H) Panthera pardus-leo, Leopon

(H) Panthera leo-tigris, Liger

Pantherophis guttatus, Corn Snake

Paracentrotus lividus, Purple Sea Urchin

Pharomachrus mocinno, Resplendent Quetzal

Phoenicopterus chilensis, Chilean Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruber, American Flamingo

Phycodurus eques, Leafy Seadragon

Planorbarius corneus, Great Ramshorn

Porzana carolina, Sora Bird

Procyon lotor, Common Raccoon

Psittrichas fulgidus, Pesquet's parrot

Puma concolor, Cougar

( R )

Ranoidea caerulea, Australian green tree frog

Rhampholeon spectrum, Spectral Pygmy Chameleon

( S )

Saguinus bicolor, Pied Tamarin Monkey

Sarcophilus harrisii, Tasmanian Devil

Sciurus vulgaris, Red Squirrel

Sphyraena viridensis, Yellow Mouthed Barracuda

Spilocuscus maculatus, Common Spotted Cuscus

Sus domesticus, Domestic Pig

( T )

Tadarida brasiliensis, Mexican Free Tailed Bat

Tapirus bairdii, Baird’s Tapir

Tapirus indicus, Malayan Tapir

( U )

Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Grey Fox

Ursus arctos horribilis, Grizzly Bear

( V )

Vulpes vulpes, Red Fox

Vulpes zerda, Fennec Fox

( EXTINCT )

Utahraptor (Extinct)

Pakicetus (Extinct)

Family: "Are you okay?"

Me: "Yeah" < Just spent 5 hours making a list of all animals in my LSD story with their scientific names

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Plate 67, Chiroptera, Kunstformen der Natur  (Art Forms of Nature)

Ernst Haeckel, 1904

1-2: Brown Long-eared Bat

3: Lesser Long-eared Bat

4: Lesser False Vampire Bat

5: Big-eared Woolly Bat

6-7: Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat

8: Mexican Funnel-eared Bat

9: Antillean Ghost-faced Bat

10: Flower-faced Bat

11: Greater Spear-nosed Bat

12: Thumbless Bat

13: Greater Horseshoe Bat

14: Wrinkle-faced Bat

15: Spectral Bat

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Plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. With the assistance of Jena artist-lithographer Adolf Giltsch, Haeckel produced one hundred plates depicting the forms of animal life. With this book Haeckel wanted to create an “aesthetics of nature” and to show how the incessant struggle for existence he had learnt from Darwin was in fact producing an endless beauty and variety of forms – Darwin and Humboldt combined together. Focusing mainly on marine animals, the bat is one of the only mammals featured in the book, but the page of surprisingly cute “chiroptera” is certainly one of the book’s most striking offerings. The full line up is:

1-2: Brown Long-eared Bat

3: Lesser Long-eared Bat

4: Lesser False Vampire Bat

5: Big-eared Woolly Bat

6-7: Tomes’s Sword-nosed Bat

8: Mexican Funnel-eared Bat

9: Antillean Ghost-faced Bat

10: Flower-faced Bat

11: Greater Spear-nosed Bat

12: Thumbless Bat

13: Greater Horseshoe Bat

14: Wrinkle-faced Bat

15: Spectral Bat

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Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus sedulus) have been classified as #NearThreatened by IUCN Red List in 2008. Photo by Bernard Dupont. #Bats

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Lesser woolly bat (Kerivoula lanosa)

The Lesser Woolly Bat is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is found in Botswana, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and rarely Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and moist savanna.

photo credits: Michael Curran and Mirjam Kopp