#false vampire bat

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Greater false vampire bat By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

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False Vampire Bat (Ghost Bat?) (and mouse), via

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Capturing a Carnivorous Bat on Camera | National Geographic

warning: does show bats catching prey but nothing graphic, pretty typical for a nature doc.

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The Australian Ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) is the country's largest microbat and the second largest globally. These bats are the only carnivorous bats in Australia, hence one of their common names the False Vampire. However, they do not drink blood, instead, they specialise in consuming insects, frogs, birds, lizards, and small mammals such as other bat species (such as the Bentwing, Horseshoe, Leafnosed, Little Cave Bat, and many species of the Sheath-tailed bats)

SIZE: The Ghost bat is 10 – 13cm long, has a wingspan of 500 mm, and weighs 130 – 170 grams.

LOCATION: They are found in tropical northern Australia, primarily in the Northern Pilbara and Kimberly regions in Western Australia. Northernmost areas of Northern Territory, and from Cairnes to Mount Etna in Queensland. 

THREATS: Man-made: barbed wire fences, tree clearings, loss of old mines and caves, climate change, and tourism

Natural: wildfires, quolls, dingoes, and pythons

DEVELOPMENT:  Once mating is complete, the sexes will separate themselves into gender-specific colonies. The females will form maternity groups of up to 1000 bats during the winter months to maintain body temperature as they naturally run quite low. A mother will birth one pup per year, taking three months to gestate. The pup will suckle milk for four weeks from the armpit and once they reach seven weeks, they will start learning how to fly and hunt. Weaning ends at 3 months, where the pups are now able to fly independently and they will reach sexual maturity for females at a year, whereas males will reach it at two years of age. The lifespan of wild Ghost bats is unknown, however, in captivity, they will live for approx. 8 – 13 years, the oldest being 20 years.

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"Enchantress"

A ghost in the night, as pale as the moonlight. She danced with the shadow in flight. Her deeds lain bare in ivory white. Beware the temptress of twilight. In her arms might you find heaven tonight.

Introducing an OC of mine, Ophelia the Ghost Bat. It’s been a long time coming, but she finally gets some much needed art.

Title: Enchantress Date: February, 2023 Software: Adobe Photoshop CC Tools: Wacom Intros Pro - Medium Work Time: 16 Hours

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Ref sheet I created for an artistic freedom fursuit commission! The client gave me the direction of "female occultist/Castlevania-inspired spectral bat". I designed the colors based off of rare furs in my hoard, and the wings are inspired by stained glass windows and the demonic sigil for Lilith.

You can check out the fursuit on LobitoWorks!

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An oc I finally got around to designing. His name is Echo and he's a false vampire bat.

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Greater false vampire bat eating a mouse By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

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hermit hybrids and their animals!

I really enjoyed drawing these so send an ask for a more obscure hybrid pairing or maybe just one I haven't done and maybe I'll get around to drawing it!

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Most bats feed exclusively on fruit, nectar, or insects, but the ghost bat has its eye on much larger targets. This species is able to use its large ears to locate and hunt microbats, rodents, and small birds like budgerigars, in addition to their diet of large arthropods.

(Image: A ghost bat () swooping in for the kill by Duncan Mackenzie)

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Wooly False Vampire bat, via

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Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas)

Family: False Vampire Bat family (Megadermatidae) 

IUCN Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Most bat species feed either on small, flying insects or on the fruits of trees, but this relatively large microbat, named for its pale coloration, is unusual in that it feeds largely on vertebrates (mainly birds, lizards, frogs and small mammals, including smaller bats.) Found in scattered populations across northern Australia, Ghost Bats spend the day roosting in small colonies within caves, mines and cavities in rocks, and emerge at night to hunt (typically in wooded areas, ranging from arid woodlands to rainforests.) They hunt in a manner more akin to an owl than to a typical predatory bat: after arriving at a suitable hunting site they position themselves on an elevated tree branch and wait for signs of prey, which they detect using echolocation, an acute sense of hearing and sensitive eyes. They subdue their prey with their teeth; airborne prey (which may be as large as Bar-Shouldered Doves, which are only slightly smaller than a Feral Pigeon) is brought to the ground by a series of powerful bites to the head and neck, while terrestrial animals are pinned to the ground by a specialized claw on the bat’s thumb and then torn apart by its jaws. As they typically breed deep in caves almost nothing is known about the reproduction of this species except for the fact that they typically produce only a single pup at a time, and that said pup clings to its mother constantly until it is mature enough to hunt on its own - when its mother flies, the pup is able to ride on her belly by clinging onto her fur as well as one of a pair of non-functional “false nipples” that seem to serve the sole purpose of allowing the pup to maintain its grip. The Ghost Bat is threatened by the destruction of roosting sites used by colonies, and by the abandoning of otherwise suitable roosting sites following disturbances by human activity (it has been reported that after being scared away from a roosting site members of this species may not return for months or even years, and without a safe roosting site they are vulnerable to predation during that day.) One of the largest and most important colonies of Ghost Bats is found in the Mount Etna Caves National Park in eastern Queensland.

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Image Source:https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41326-Macroderma-gigas

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