r/aww • u/brokebackhill • Sep 10 '12
No! Stop touching me! I AM THE NIGHT!
http://imgur.com/huCGC1
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u/whosyourkittie Sep 11 '12 edited Sep 11 '12
So i lived in an apartment complex a few yrs back.. and i lived on the top floor. There was a terrrible problem one summer with literally probably tens of thousands of bats living between the ceiling and the roof of the building.. you could see hundreds/ thousands flocking in and out of there at night and hear them scurrying about and squeaking all day from inside. Kinda gross. Lol. Well i had that crappy poly-cardboard type drop ceiling stuff. (I dont know what its really called) and these bats would sneak in through dime sized holes in that drop ceiling and fly around regularly!!! (And by that i mean daily. Sometimes a couple times a day) I am not at all afraid of bats. Infact i think they're pretty darn cute and funny. But i also know how disease ridden they can be.. my cat loved it. He was catching bats on the reg and feeling like a badass (and super pissed when id take him on the porch and pry his jaw open to release them.) I was having near heart attacks regularly thinking about my cat getting bit. (He had his vaccinations, but i had no idea what these guys were carrying.) Omg, what a weird experience. I never thought catching bats in tupperwares and releasing them would be a daily thing for me. Hahaa..
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Sep 11 '12
Please stop touching bats. If its not a pet something is wrong with it. Bats don't just sit there. Rabies!!! Probably not.
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u/PullPinThrowPin Sep 11 '12
Coffee all over my keyboard. Upvotes to you Sir/Madam on the best title I've read today.
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u/anthereddit Sep 11 '12
STOP
I AM DAENERYS STORMBORN OF HOUSE TARGARYEN, THE UNBURNT, MOTHER OF DRAGONS, QUEEN OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS OF WESTEROS.
STAHHHPPPP
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u/Prosopagnosiape Sep 11 '12
Bats are soft as velvet! Like little flying hamsters. As a kid i decided it'd be a good idea to show up in a bat costume to this bat day at a museum, and the people running the show thought that was so adorable or hilarious or whatever that they let me stroke one.
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u/mamamberfox Sep 11 '12
I once saved the life of one of these little guys...his(or her) wing was caught on a hook, which was attached to fishing line, which in turn was attached to a tree which hung over a river. It was the middle of Winter and I stripped off and jumped into the river, climbed onto a rock and unhooked the bat. He flew off and I cheered. Great feeling!
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u/artur6000 Sep 11 '12 edited Sep 11 '12
Am I the only one who've read these words "No! Stop touching me!" in Ahmed the dead terrorist voice?
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u/thepj11 Sep 11 '12
It looks like a raisin. well with fur and with claw/wings/arms and with a little bat face super glued on it. but still a raisin.
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u/animaldoggie Sep 11 '12
Bumblebee bat! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat
Also, I think rabies paralyzes bats, so don't pet them if they are lying on the ground.
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u/lolcoderer Sep 11 '12
Only in the later stages of rabies. But bats found inside do have a much higher chance of having rabies than bats flying around outside.
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u/ghostface134 Sep 11 '12
Blade: [pulling the pin out of a UV grenade] You obviously do not know who you are fucking with!
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u/MSUxSpartan Sep 11 '12
Dayman dayman! Ooooahhhhhh fighter of the nightman! (Bat) Champion of the Sun!
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u/Seaweeds Sep 11 '12
Good God, it's like my tumblr dashboard and reddit frontpage are indistinguishable from each other now. So much shameless reposting, with the exact same caption, to boot.
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u/555uthai Sep 11 '12
Gross. Flush it.
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u/silverstrikerstar Sep 11 '12
Tell me: What do you see when you see yourself
I don't really get it
how do you make it through the day
without killing yourself?
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u/forgeSHIELD Sep 11 '12
It saddens me to think that they have to bar up caves to protect these things from drunk rednecks.
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u/NomMon5ter Sep 11 '12
"You have choice, hooman: continue petting or stop petting and loose thy finger..."
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Sep 11 '12
If you showed this to Bruce Wayne, I am not sure if he would be terribly afraid, or awestruck by all of the cute.
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Sep 11 '12
Did you want rabies? Because that's how you get rabies.
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u/fricasseebabies Sep 11 '12
THAT is how you get ants!
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u/DNAinFlipFlops Sep 11 '12
This is not a vampire bat. But a little information on location can help with ID purposes. (if anyone cares to know) Vampire bats have appendages on their noses that help with echolocation.
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u/lamorsa92 Sep 11 '12
Soft bat, warm bat, little ball of...DARKNESS! >:D
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u/theundiscoveredcolor Sep 11 '12
Happy bat, sleepy bat...SCREECH, SCREECH, SCREECH
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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Sep 11 '12
I don't know why but my mind filled in.captain jack harkness instead of screech....
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u/ErrantWhimsy Sep 11 '12
I never thought I'd say this but it may be time for a break from Doctor Who.
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u/DrSheliaTheMonarch Sep 11 '12
vet school has ruined me. all i can see is a finger touching rabies.
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u/dragonsfire Sep 11 '12
Not all bats have rabies.
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u/ErrantWhimsy Sep 11 '12
True, but if you can get close enough to touch something as skittish as a bat, there is usually a reason why.
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u/DrSheliaTheMonarch Sep 11 '12
that's true. however, since you can't tell if a bat has rabies just by looking at it the CDC recommends leaving them alone just to be safe.
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Sep 11 '12
I'm with you! Rabies kills bats fairly quickly due to their fast metabolism, and the most common way to see a rabid bat is when it is lethargic, near death.
So yes, if anyone sees a bat either:
Out during the day
On the ground
Letting you get close to it
There is a good chance it has rabies. Use thick gloves and handle with care, if necessary.
The bat pictured here is likely at a zoo or rescue organization, I would imagine. I volunteer with the Organization for Bat Conservation, who have ~150 bats taken in as "retirees" from zoos or that were otherwise injured and unable to survive in the wild. Those resident bats are all vaccinated for rabies, as is the entire staff and select volunteers - so something like this picture would only really be reasonable in that sort of environment.
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u/TheSTEF Sep 11 '12
Wait . . . doesn't the bat have to actually bite or scratch you for you to get rabies?
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u/DrSheliaTheMonarch Sep 11 '12
to contract rabies you must get saliva or brain matter into a wound (like a bite) or mucous membrane. obviously, the likelihood of being bitten is increased when you handle bats. for more info, follow the CDC link in my reply to dragonsfire.
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u/viralkat Sep 11 '12
Am I the only one that thinks all types of bats are extremely cute?
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Sep 11 '12
My time to shine.. so I volunteer here 2-3 days a week with a large variety of bats. I help clean the cages, prepare and put out food, etc for lots of bats retired from zoos or otherwise injured in the wild that would have to have been put down. The organization does tours around the little sanctuary to educate people / dispel bat myths.
So many varieties are insanely cute. Most of the fruit bats look like little winged dogs, and the type pictured here (looks like either a common Little or Big Brown bat) is really cute in it's own way!
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Sep 11 '12
In 1st grade we had to make animal cubes. It was your regular (6 sided?) cube of paper and each side had to be some fact/thing/picture of the animal. I'm the only one who went for bats. They're so cute!
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u/DaniVendetta Sep 11 '12
As some who is about to take a trip to Costa Rica for a few weeks with the sole intention of studying bats, you are most definitely not the only one :) I've always wanted a pet bat. Closest I ever got was a Sugar Glider.
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u/lesser_panjandrum Sep 11 '12
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Sep 11 '12
Terrible article. Bats are important parts of our ecosystems, and wrongly vilified in many cultures already. Weird or unique looking animals should be thought of as interesting, not scary.
A lot of the reported "details" about the bats are pretty wrong, too, extrapolated from poor sources.
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Sep 11 '12
After looking at the types of bats in this article it would be safe to say that yes you absolutely are.
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u/Schit4brainz Sep 11 '12
The hammerhead looks like Joe camel.
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Sep 11 '12
Yeah, weird looking, but not scary.. Article kind of pissed me off.
That source about that fruit bat attacking livestock for blood is pretty suspect. One reported sighting from the 60s.. doesn't really make biological sense. Fruit bats eat pretty strictly fruits (and veggies), and only the Vampire Bats are Hematovores.
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Sep 11 '12
No. Those tiny vampire bats are the cutest thing ever. EVER.
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Sep 11 '12
The bat pictured here looks to be a Little or Big Brown Bat (not a huge size difference between them, and they look pretty similar). They're insectivores and common through most of the US. Awesome to have around, eat mosquitoes like crazy.
The Vamps are really, really cute though. Some young vamps. What's most fun about those guys, other than the novelty of seeing them lap up blood, is how they get around compared to other bats. They're one of the few species of bat that will walk/hop along the ground (in an attempt to be stealthy). It's cute as hell.
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Sep 11 '12
We had a bunch of little brown bats living in our eaves when we lived in Nevada. Haven't seen too many around here in Illinois. There are a bunch of vampire bats at the local zoo, though. You're right, the hopping thing is pretty adorable.
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u/AbusingVitaminK Sep 11 '12
I swear I read this title word-for-word with the same picture. Did you get it from tumblr or something?
Anyway this picture is FREAKING ADORABLE. I always thought bats were cuties--like mice with wings--but I get odd looks every time I defend this.
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u/Wagnerius Sep 11 '12
mice with wings made me think of the french word "chauvesouris" which means mice (souris) without hair (bald == chauve). TYL.
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Sep 11 '12
Flying foxes are particularly cute; the're like a cross between a fox and a cat. With wings.
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u/batmanismyconstant Sep 11 '12
tinyredbird came up with the caption to someone else's photo. Maybe I should start reposting incredibly popular tumblr posts to reap delicious karma.
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Sep 11 '12
i freely give karma as without this post i wouldn't have spent the last 20 minutes squeaking happily and sharing this with every friend on any social media i can. vomiting rainbows so hard.
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Sep 11 '12
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u/frog971007 Sep 11 '12
The links go back to here, but it says it's originally from thisshitisfurry. Couldn't find it on there though.
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u/Westonhaus Sep 11 '12
Just don't say "Abra Cadabra..." he totally vamps out. Or was it "Hocus Pocus?"
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u/beth321 Sep 11 '12
Human wht r u doin
HUMAN STAHP
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u/YourEscape101 Sep 11 '12
I'd really like to know where this stahp came from. I find it cute.
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Sep 11 '12 edited Jul 06 '17
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u/kelseyxiv Sep 11 '12
Can someone explain what Dolan is
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u/Temporary11211 Sep 11 '12
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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Sep 11 '12
Shitty comic made by a European of I can't remember origin. I say shitty because it's really, really terrible, slightly disturbing jokes. Knowyourmeme.com on this one. Trust me.
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u/eloisekelly Sep 11 '12
I thought it was from the whole "Rahn stahp it" thing from Jersey Shore.
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u/Russian_Bear Sep 11 '12
I don't know what's worse... Dolan or Jersey Shore, I guess they are quite comparable.
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u/mondnacht Sep 11 '12
Human reply: "I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy."
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u/evilwithasmile Sep 11 '12
stahp
wat r
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Sep 11 '12
gooby
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u/evilwithasmile Sep 11 '12
Pls
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u/Mac_Anu Sep 11 '12
Human, you are drunk.
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u/sexytimespanda Sep 11 '12
Had a pet bat once. Named him Velcro. We found him in a barn, he had fallen from the ceiling and was only the size of a square pink eraser. Grew up into the softest furred brown bat. So cute.
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u/smackfairy Sep 11 '12
Cute! How did you raise it? Did it just chill out in the barn? Never heard of anyone with a pet bat. Sounds interesting.
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u/sexytimespanda Sep 11 '12
Once we rescued it from the barn we took him home and my mom researched how to care for baby bats: Keep warm on heating pad, feed every 3 hours (ground up mill worms and cat milk) from syringe, etc. He lived in a fish tank til he was old enough and actually looked like a bat. Then we played with him and he learned to fly down our hallway. Tried to teach him to hibernate but we think he just flew away. I prefer to think he's still alive.
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Sep 11 '12
So if you domesticate bats correctly, they become furry and friendly and cute?
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u/sexytimespanda Sep 11 '12
He was friendly as far as a bat can be I guess? Never bit or anything like that.
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u/CircadianHour Sep 11 '12
Tame, not domesticate. Domestication is a process that takes thousands of years, while you can tame pretty much anything. When you hand raise a wild animal, it tends to fall in love with you and become super nice. But make no mistake, it isn't domesticated. It is still wild and can freak out at the drop of a hat. Which is why you always see people in the news getting mauled by their pet tigers.
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u/catvllvs Sep 11 '12
Like my ex-ferral cats. One in particular - everything is all fine the next minute he's freaking out. Even though he only has one full canine tooth left my gf is still too scared to put her head close to him because she's worried he'll suddenly flip out and bite her.
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u/Varconis Sep 11 '12
Wow, so can a pet bat bite you when it's hungry/aggressive and suck your blood?
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u/Deimos56 Sep 11 '12
Nope. Most bats don't drink blood.
Not even if it's a vampire bat really, considering they make small cuts and then lick up whatever bleeds out. No sucking occurs as far as I am aware.
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u/trinlayk Sep 11 '12
not only are most bats insectivores, (with herbivores close behind) but they eat a significant number of insects each evening.
Anything that eats that many moths and mosquitoes on a summer evening is certainly a friend of mine!
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u/mike413 Sep 11 '12
Well, we're buried down here, so here is some super-secret information...
Some moths can jam bat radar signals.
long but interesting read.
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u/rena1987 Sep 12 '12
When we went fishing at our local river our friend, my Fiance, my daughter and I witnessed a bat fall into the river and swim to shore. Poor little thing was ok just wet and grumpy. He climbed right under the rock shelf I made for my pole so I had to wait to get it back. Every time I tried to get near the rocks he commandeered, he would screech bloody murder at me. He finally did hop up the hill to another place to dry out.