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Jamaican Fruit bats, via

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Wingspan

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Do you pronounce caecilian "say-silly-an" or "kay-silly-an" or am I completely off base?

I have always heard it pronounced SAY SILLY AN, or SUH SILL EE UN.

Thats an excellent question btw. Many of us read these words, but never hear them said!

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Two-colored Caecilian (Epicrionops bicolor), family Rhinatrematidae, found in disjunct populations in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia

Caecilians are amphibians, like salamanders and frogs.

They are not worms, nor are they snakes.

photographs by Luis A. Coloma

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ted so tired ,my fingers are rotten from the cavern germs

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Hee-Hee the Malayan Flying Fox, via

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Smol and Angory

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Fruit Spotted

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Praise be to Bat

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Eyes full of Hope

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Chill Like that

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Orange RAGE

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'White Scar Caves', Yorkshire Dales

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The Tolga Bat Hospital: where adorable abandoned baby bats are wrapped in blankets and fed with bottles.

Normally we associate bats with being blood-thirsty, but all these cute critters want to drink is some bottled milk. About 300 bat pups are orphaned every year because their mother is ill and can’t feed them or has died from tick paralysis. These furry creatures are too injured to return to the wild and need to be nursed back to health. Pictured at the hospital, the black flying animals can be seen sucking on bottles, while they are swaddled in colourful blankets. The bats can also be seen bathing in the bathroom sink and even having their hair combed by workers at the hospital.  The Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Australia, is a community group working for the conservation of bats and their natural habitat. The volunteers care for bats who have come from hundreds of kilometres away in need for urgent care. And they also take in bats for sanctuary after they have been retired from zoos. 

Via Daily Mail

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why are bats stigmatized as being creepy?

I mean

look at these things

they’re like tiny

fluffy

dragons

but instead of breathing fire they squeak and cuddle 

in caves

and leaves

and they have funny ears and noses

I mean really

bats are amazing

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