ahhhhhhh bat tummies

[SPKrazy]

so cute

so cuddly

so tempting to rub

[billyskank]

1. WOW LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT ONES

never mind :blush:

[SPKrazy]

2. Ya Noticed Them

he's mighty proud of them too

[yellowdogintexas]

28. My husband just called it the "Oh No " Bat

his ahem.. ... is 3 inches and his legs are two inches and when he walks he says "Oh NO"

[Digit]

29. I almost fell off my chair laughing at that one!

Must be hell at landings....oh NOOOOOOO!

[fizzgig]

3. bats are among the few things that freak me out

i'm pretty impervious to most things, but bats freak me the shit out and make my skin crawl

bats and sharks


(now you know my weakness)

[SPKrazy]

4. To Tell You The truth

i don't much care for them either

it's a lame copycat thread about "cat tummies"

:rofl:

[fizzgig]

5. i know

but my reaction is still the same

however, as an aside, i will tell you a story about bats (the story has no point)

the only time i thought bats were cool was when i was three or four years old. my family lived in a duplex (up and downstairs). the oldest girl downstairs used to babysit me and we'd lay in the backyard and watch the bats.

there you go, a pointless story from me

[SPKrazy]

15. Bats Are Interesting To Watch

I watch them at night sometimes

It's neat to see a bunch of them

at dusk you can really see them.

not a pointless story, just a story

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I used to sit outside with my kids and watch the bats fly around

just about dusk. They (the kids) discovered that if they tossed a small rock or pebble up into the air, the bats would home in on it and follow it down toward the ground or until they discovered that it wasn't an insect.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. He FLIES with those things?!?!

[Maine-ah]

13. actually, I think he uses his wings to fly...

:silly: :evilgrin:

[stuntcat]

7. strange, very strange..

I was JUST looking at these fruit bats online last night (I'm batty for the bats :) and I was showing my husband how scary they look, they're the scariest looking of all bats but I still think they're precious!!
I'd rub their tummies, I'd pet their lil heads (then they'd probably bite me but whatever!)

[MonkeyFunk]

8. ooh

where? Is there a bat-cam?

[appal_jack]

10. another bat story

When I was in college at Antioch, my Biology prof. would take-in bats that had gotten confused about when it was time to come out of winter hibernation. When people found such bats outside (or inside) their houses, they would call the "bat lady" (at least they would if they were cool enough to not-kill said bats).

A bat coming out of hibernation is a starving, thirsty bat. So we (bio-student-bat-geeks) would help the prof. by feeding the bats mealworms (using tweezers... the bat would just snatch the worm from the tweezer tips!) and giving them water with droppers. Although the bats seemed happy about this turn of events, they still would bite the hand holding them, so we always wore heavy leather gloves.

Once the bats were happily fed and watered, we would induce them back to hibernation by placing them in a styrofoam cooler, and placing that in one of the bio lab fridges. The best part of all would come in spring, once we noticed bats flying in the evenings. We would bring the coolers out of the fridge around sunset, and remove the covers near Antioch Hall (which actually had bats living in its belfry). The bats above would call to the bats below, and pretty soon, the rescued bats were off, flying and free.

-app

[ceile]

14. They were still alive in the coolers?

I don't know enough about bats....

[appal_jack]

22. Yup...

Yes, a refrigerator temperature (~34 deg. F.) is apparently just about ideal for bat-hibernation. As long as the bat doesn't get awakened again (by heat, extreme noise, physical disturbance, etc.) they would do great for a month or more in the fridge. The styrofoam cooler kept things quiet and dark for the bats when we were opening the fridge up for other purposes (can't remember what else was in there... maybe some photo paper, oats for the mealworms, feed for other critters in the lab, etc.)

As you can probably tell, the bio lab fridge was not the one to raid when you had the munchies - all sorts of surprises in there!!!

If anyone out there is looking for a good, progressive college with a solid science program, I heartily recommend Antioch. Memories of just about everything in that Science building, and particularly Prof. Jill Yager's bio lab (she still teaches there), are really dear to me.

The organic garden behind the Science Building also rocked my world. Made a farmer out of a city boy...

-app

[crispini]

20. That is very very cool! nt

[BarenakedLady]

9. uhmmmm

:wow:

[SPKrazy]

19. Checking Out The Bat's

balls?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. Actually...

fruit bats (the ones in the picture) are AMAZING soft! I had a chance to touch one at local animal park a few year back -- I have been in love with them ever since. They really are beautifal animals up close.

[SPKrazy]

21. Touch The Bats All You Want

they have tummies too


:rofl:

[stuntcat]

12. my bat houses

I have two mounted on a 15 foot poll in my back yard, I'll figure out how to show the picture of them maybe! I don't think anyone's moved in but whatever, the bats are around anyway. They're good for the garden because they eat the moths that make the worms that eat the roots of plants. The Bat Conservation people are helping give them places to live and breed because keeping up their population is important for all the bugs they eat, which is important for the plants.. and stuff
Okay that's my bat lecture!!! :)

[appal_jack]

27. cool...

Bathouses on poles are on my to-do list.

If we all had bathouses in our backyards, the world woul dbe much less buggy.

-app

[Phillycat]

16. Are those balls?

Seriously, are they?

[SPKrazy]

18. Think So

but I haven't ever seen bat balls before!

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

23. Bats are so good for us here in Austin!

We have the largest urban colony of Mexican Free-tail bats in the world. I can't imagine how many more bugs we'd have if they didn't eat so much.

[Taverner]

25. Next time I'm there I want to go out to that bridge at sunset

And watch the bats fly out - I hear it's pretty spectacular.

[GOPisEvil]

26. It's quite impressive.

http://www.batcon.org/home/index.asp?idPage=122

I recommend it for all visitors!

[crim son]

24. LMFAO!

Nice copycat!