#hammerhead bat

[chimeride]

[loveisinthebat]

Maximized Honk Device

[klaunee]

[OC] Uggo the Hammer-headed Bat

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 3 Match 16

Glass Frog: "you can see its heart through its skin!"

Hammerhead Bat: "One of the only bat species who use lekking! The big nose is only there on males because they use it to do biiig loud calls, with the big nose acting as an echo chamber to amplify the sound!"

[kikimanic]

Normal front view and a silly one

[antiqueanimals]

The New Natural History. Written by Richard Lydekker. 1901. Illustration by Pierre Jacques Smit.

[audley-and-cherry]

Another batch of resin skulls came my way- I spent a little while this afternoon sorting and cleaning them.

Jackalopes, crows, magpies, fruit bats, hammerhead bat, ravens.

And whoever this guy is!

I'll start painting them on Monday- the goal is to make them look old and worn.

As always, if you want one to buy one of these, they're available for sale at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackRiderIndustries

Cherry helps.

[make-this-into-a-pokemon]

Hammerhead Bat

You've heard of the hammerhead shark, well get ready for the Hammerhead bat!!

[anaja-arts]

The Usual Suspects!

Many reports come in each year of people sighting paranormal and cryptid phenomena. More often than not, the witnessed is something that’s already been explained. What’s taken the false spotlight for some of the most famous cryptids? Among other things: sandhill cranes, hammerhead bats, runaway kangaroos, and pieces of driftwood. 

[craftingcreatures]

Alright, so I was thinking about Hammerheaded Bats (Hypsignathus monstrosa), as one does, and I just... have questions.

Obviously these things are absolutely ludicrous. The deranged-looking eyes, the goblin-esque ears, the lips that look like they got slammed in a car door a few too many times. And, of course, the gloriously fearsome schnozz. As far as creatures go this is one of the creaturey-est. 10/10. Brilliant design.

It gets better, as biology usually does. These bats are large, with a wingspan of almost a meter. Males and females display some rather extreme sexual dimorphism - the males are twice as heavy as the females, and it is only they which possess the extravagant nasal anatomy. That nose is an amplifying chamber, allowing the males to honk at their lady loves with a noise rather like a duck's quack played over a squeaky fence gate. Hammerheaded bats are the only bat species known to mate in a lekking system, in which the males all come together in one place to compete for the females' affections against each other. The males with the loudest, most obnoxious honks are the most desirable to the females.

Hammerheaded bats are one of a very few mammals known to have an XO sex determination system (For reference, humans have an XY system). This means that female bats, like humans, have two X chromosomes, but males do not have a Y-chromosome; instead, they have one X chromosome and that's it. This kind of chromosomal sex-determination is more often seen in insects like grasshoppers.

All of this is good. I love me some weird animals, and Hammerhead bats are no slouches when it comes to weirdness. But, fellas, we've only just scratched the surface when it comes to the weirdness of bat. And I do mean the surface, because the real weirdness is inside.

...

OK so there's a lot to unpack here.

First off, the larynx. It's obscenely large, three times larger in males than in females. It's half the length of the entire spinal column. It's so big that it smooshes all of the internal organs - you know, important things like the heart and lungs - all the way down into the lower abdomen. AND it's connected to air sacs in the throat that amplify the honks even further.

Like. I know why these bats are like this. I know why their honk-producing apparatus is so over-engineered and dominant that there's barely any room for anything else. Biology will do crazy things in pursuit of reproductive success. But like... they still have to live. These are bats. They're endothermic and they fly. Their oxygen consumption is through the roof. HOW do they get away with squishing their heart and lungs that much?! Is there some kind of pocket dimension where the rest of their lungs are stored?! Sir, how do you breathe?!

In conclusion, Hammerhead bats break my brain and I want to know everything about them. I love living on this planet - there's so much bonkers stuff to learn.

Info from https://caitlynfinton.com/2022/05/06/meet-the-hammer-headed-bat/

[jaketeachesdeath]

The Hammerhead Fruit Bat, an impressive species without a doubt. The sexual diamorphism is incredibly noticeable too.

We spoke last time about how they are considered pest species and that honking is often the cause of that. With the decibel range and consistency of the honks its gotta get a little aggravating however, the males form what is a called a lek, a sort of group breeding display if you will. This behaviour is largely seen in birds interestingly enough.

Now because the males focus on honking so much the way they evolved is rather odd. Another name for them is the Big Lipped Bat thats due to the males facial set up for intense audio. Whilst that acoustic set up works fantastically its the internal organs we turn our attention to next.

The males internal organs seem rather displaced in comparison to the female, thats because their long larynx takes up like half of the body cavity to generate that honking display. How else could they create an impressive honk off at dusk to impress the ladies!

02/03/24

[loveisinthebat]

Honk Machine

[zedortoo]

I'm about to get so autistic over his silly vampire outfit y'all are NOT ready

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 1 Match 64

Hammerhead Bat: "Big honker snorf sniffing around the mangroves" "The males have big noses to make VERY loud mating calls! They are one of two types of bats who use lekking :)"

Royal Albatross: "they are some of the largest birds on the planet and have super interesting behaviors! they communicate with a mix of beak-clacking and vocalizations. they mate for life and have very intricate courtship rituals. they don't really have any naturally occuring land predators and so they are very sociable and friendly both with humans and other albatrosses. they can take up to 10 years to reach maturity and only have one baby each breeding season after that. they can live for a super long time, the oldest known banded bird being an albatross named wisdom who is at least 70 years old!"

[kikimanic]

Quick doodle of my new fursona

[the-terrible-theys]

found a tier list thing for ranking all the wks creature power suit designs and figured it’d be fun :)

tier list maker is linked here if you’re curious

anyway here’s mine!

edit: i keep getting notifs for this so i wanted to add that the tiermaker was done by @/galmiahthepigeon !