#leaf nosed bat

[transgender-chiroptera]

California leaf-nosed bat, via merlintuttlesbats

[rate-every-bat]

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Today's Bat: Waterhouse's Leaf-Nosed Bat

Environmental Impact: The Waterhouse's Leaf-Nosed Bat has quite a range across Latin America. They tend to hunt low-to-the-ground and exhibit "hovering" maneuvers over grasses, and also utilize broad echolocation for a shorter hunting range. They have few predators, though they're known to carry parasites and nematodes. They're picky about roosts, choosing caves with varying sun exposure so they can circulate throughout and regulate their body temperatures. The Waterhouse likes to stay out of humanity's way, but they certainly won't pass up an abandoned mine shaft if the opportunity strikes. All in all, a solid contender!

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Beauty: These guys boast the classic bat aesthetic: cartilaginous ridges in the ear, proud nose, grey-brown fur, and a median body size. This is a bat I'd take home to meet my parents, for sure.

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Power: In another pique of reproductive intrigue, the Waterhouse Leaf-Nosed Bat chose an oddity for each sex. For one, a male bat's sperm count will vary throughout the year, which is the indicating factor for mating seasons. On the other side of the coin, females utilize the T4 Hormone to create a "delated development" pattern in embryos: by lowering the T4 hormone in the third trimester, they're able to speed the development of the offspring. Finally, the Waterhouse, while normally a more solitary kind of bat, boasts impressive mothering skills. Their nursery roosts can number up to 100 individuals!

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Overall: The Waterhouse's Leaf-Nosed Bat is to bats what the name Chris is to the Marvel filmography: standard, foundational, a joy to have around.

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(Today's sources: Anderson, S. (1969). Macrotis waterhousii. The American Society of Mammalogists., Wikipedia)

[todaysbat]

Diadem Leaf-Nosed Bat (Hipposideros diadema)

These bats have a powerful bite, specifically noted to be painful for humans.

image description: photo of a very orange bat with a very alien looking face with tiny eyes and very wrinkly looking nose.

image source: Australian Museum

[megabat-nerd]

“ goodnight!! “ said the Phyllostomids 🦇✨

[toadalled]

Completed reference sheet for a gorgeous bat! I'm so very pleased with this! 

 Lovely character owned by @cryptidcoyotee

[grottweiler]

Grott is supposed to be a goatman, but I gave him a piggy/aardvark nose because it was cute, so now he just looks like a bat.

I need to emphasize his goatness, but part of his character is that he's unable to grow a beard, so I can't just give him some billygoat scruff. The horizontal pupils are neat, but too alien for my tastes. Maybe I'll have his ears hang low (or at least make them longer/droopier than they are now). I'm gonna be innovating for a while before I settle on a design I really like.

[brucethecrocodile]

My fursonas:

Gadget (she/her)

-leaf nosed bat

-no pet

-smoll

-is angry

Techno (she/her)

-churum

-no pet

-cafe owner at day // assassin at night // cutie-pie 24/7

Spirit (they/them)

-smilodon // god of nature & balance

-pet boxbit, named Boo (see below)

-immortal (made Boo immortal too)

Boo (he/him)

-Boxbit pet of Spirit

Bruce (he/him)

-nile crocodile (1/5 domestic cat)

-pet egyptian plover, named Toothfairy (see below)

-big boi

-soft boi

Toothfairy (she/her)

-Egyptian Plover pet of Bruce

[loveisinthebat]

Special Buddy

[puppyeared]

couldnt decide on drawing fish or horsies

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Vampire bats are blood-suckers, but they’re not selfish; those that don’t find enough to eat will groom their colony mates in exchange for regurgitated blood. Researchers have also observed other bats feeding new mothers for up to two weeks after they give birth.

(Image: A common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) by Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca)

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[the-owl-tree]

HOW DO YOU DRAW LIKE THAT, YOUR DRAGONS, WTF, WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS?? AAAAAAAA

If you dm me askin.. ^-^'

<3<3<3

step 1: cry because ur not very good at the traditional dragons

step 2: remember the ancient wisdom of pokemon: anything can be dragon

step 3: go from there

since i'm not really good at drawing from nothing so first thing's first i gather my inspirations! i take a real life animal and break it down into shapes, keeping what i like and then adjusting to make it more fantastical. So for my Mudwings, i took the base shapes of a ram and then added dragony details until it got how I liked.

[transgender-chiroptera]

Giant Leaf Nosed Bat, via africanbatconservation

[moon9931]

more bats

im attempting to do pizzahead next, but everytime I try and draw him, I always hate the result

[todaysbat]

Diadem Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros diadema)

Males secrete a waxy substance from a sac behind their nose as a means of displaying their sex appeal.

image description: a brownish bat with a very weird looking nose in flight.

image source: Michael Pennay, via wikipedia

[snowbatmakesstuff]

Another drawing of my sona for my updated commission sheets

[chiiroptereh]

And as usual Art Fight is getting my ass moving, hooray! This year I'm trying "batification" attacks to hopefully kick-start my motivation and it's working great actually. I'm very proud of my anatomy right now, it feels nice to like my own art again. Now I just gotta find something to paint!

Characters belong to MaWzda and @p4rt1cle !