#international bat day

[kittyyoutuber1234]

Here’s two of my oc’s: Nightbite (the Black, grey, and white Cave Bat) and Scarlet Dream (the red and grey bat pony)

I’mma try and post more of my ocs… if you don’t mind

[aesthetco]

April 17th ~ International Bat Appreciation Day

I don't know about you but I think bat's are some of the cutest animals. Just look at their big eyes 💕 Happy International Bat Appreciation Day and enjoy this aesthetic to start your day 🦇

[considernature]

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That's right! It's International Bat Appreciation Day! We share our planet with over 1400 species of bat, making the second most abundant mammal order, and they perform a wide variety of ecological roles, from dispersing seeds to pollinating flowers to eating thousands of insects in a single night! Over 200 bat species are listed as Threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature--that is over 14 percent of all bats!

YOU can help endangered bats today by donating to Pennsylvania Bat Rescue at this link. This PA-based organization rehabilitates sick or injured bats and helps educate people like you and me in how we can create more bat-friendly environments.

If you want to learn about particularly-cool bat species native to New Zealand, check out this Consider Nature article on the Pekapeka, the bat that walks:

For the rest of the day, Consider Nature will be bat-bombing Tumblr with some of our favorite bat species to share them with the world!

Alt text: a small brown bat stretching its wings with the kind of fabulous flourish that would impress Ryan Evans.

[lightningidle]

Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! Often unfairly maligned, bats are an important part of diverse ecosystems worldwide. They eat harmful insects, pollinate plants- including rare nocturnal ones- and are generally just important little guys to have around. Thanks, bats! 🦇✨

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[thatdykepunkslut]

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[kuroiyuki96-art]

Cute, Gorgeous and Cool

[shit-talker]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMANS DAY!!

(im late 😭 but this took me forever to draw)

[solcrownn]

i'm only a little late. just a smidge. a touch

[arthistoryanimalia]

Its #BatAppreciationDay so please appreciate this awesome 19th century Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky bats, photographed in 2019 at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC:

Kosode with Bats Japan, Edo - Meiji periods, 19th century silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery, 67⅜ × 48⅞ in. National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture

“In the West, bats - nocturnal in habit and denizens of dark places tend to be viewed as unlucky, but in China they have long been considered an auspicious motif (one of the characters used to write the word "bat" is a homonym for good fortune). The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjüro VII (1791-1859) used bat motifs in his costumes, and the perception of these animals as a chic design element spread rapidly throughout Japan in the nineteenth century. Here a great number of them are arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem.”

The above info is from the official exhibition catalog - this bat kosode is on p. 124:

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (2019)

[ghostieking]

it’s international bat appreciation day!!! here’s batsy batsy reworked in a bunch of cool different color schemes! let me know if you guys think I should add these bad bois to my shops hehe 🦇 💚

art by ghostieking

[pr0mz0mbie2005]

Happy international bat appreciation day!

[cosmicloak]

I missed International Bat Appreciation Day by a day (April 17) (ㆀ˘･x･˘)

bats are neat & incredibly important to the environment!

exclusive prints of these @mushroomyhouse - mushroomy.house/cosmicloak

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[bigthecatirl]

its your day ladies !!! you deserve it <3

i didnt get to put everyone i wanted to but i wanted this out before march 8th was over for me </3 i literally did this in an hour cuz i didnt have time the rest of the day

[considernature]

Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba).

Near Threatened.

Alt text: two small fluffy white bats that are roosting together beneath a leaf.

[brimbrimbrimbrim]

Happy International Bat Day! @flaggermuser <3

[froggyfroo-art]

It's International Bat Appreciation Day today, so I figured I'd draw a particularly unappreciated bat (Rogelio) with the one person that appreciates him the most - his baby sister, Iridián :3

Just a bit of context - Rogelio was sixteen when his little sister was born, and as he's currently 22 in the comic, Iridián is six here. Before he found work in his 20s, he did the majority of the childcare while his parents were working, and he still makes time to take her to and from school and hangs out with her when he can. Also unrelated but the uniform and school bag are based on the ones I had when I was in primary school :3 (This won't doxx me because bottle green is an alarmingly common colour for school uniforms in the UK)