alybatgirl.bsky.social
I like to talk about bats and noses. 🦇👃
Sometimes I dress up like fantasy characters 🧝♀️
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There's a whole Shiny app (developed by @marckissel.bsky.social) that lets you make all the needed conversions!
marckissel.shinyapps.io/Stoat/
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@mammalssuck.bsky.social made me do it. #TeamBat
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COATI CONSUMES FIGS... AND FIG-EATING BAT!!! #2025MMM
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Fig-Eating Bat catches an insect RIGHT AS Coati SNAP grabs the bat in his mouth... after all, fecale samples of Coati reveal 10% of their diet can mammal prey! (Alves-Costa et al. 2004; Valenzuela 1998) #2025MMM
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CHOMP! CHOMP!! #2025MMM
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and despite the name, Fig-Eating Bat doesn't particularly like FIGS. Analyses of fecal samples reveal this bat consumes Cercropia seeds, non-native rose-apple (Syzgium) & insects. (Mancina and Garcia-Rivera 2000) #2025MMM
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Bat's nose leaf twitches rapidly as she echolocates, getting her bearings. Though the forest is not that differnet from home, she does not like moonlight... (Zeppelini et al 2019). #2025MMM
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That 'flower' is the upright tail of the Coati! Coati doesn't even notice- he is eating FIGS!!! #2025MMM
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She's suddenly mid-air in the Costa Rican forest from #MMMagic translocation! She flings out her long wings just in time, the trailing edge of her wing brushes ever so slightly against a long, fluffy...flower? #2025MMM
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Over on the Caribbean island of Cuba, our Bat stretches a wing and scratches at her shoulder, just below the patch of pure white fur. A warm wind rustles across the surface of her green leaf tent when...WHOOSH! #2025MMM
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Moonlight filters through the forest canopy of Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica as our Coati snuffles along, his long nosed buried in the leaf litter searching for one last snack before bedtime. #2025MMM
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The fig-eating bat, also known as the Cuban white-shouldered bat, has broad shoulders a short, square jaw and a short, spear-shaped nose leaf. Unlike most other bats, the membrane between their first and second fingers is transparent #2025MMM
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With an elgonated nose, pale eye and nose 'mask', and long, slender tail that equals their body length, Coatis look a bit like a stretched out raccoon (to whom they are related, Gompper 1995) #2025MMM
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PACA DEFEATS MOUSEDEER!!!!! #2025MMM
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And bites down hard on the nose of the Mouse-deer. Startled, Mouse-deer turns and sprints away, leaving Paca still at the entrance to her burrow. #2025MMM
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Paca emits a series of loud grunts and positions her body to shield her pup. With a lurch, she lunges forward, teeth bared... #2025MMM
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Thump. Thump. Thump. Mouse-deer stamps his front feet in an increasing rhythm. Maybe this slightly mouse-deer shaped animal will just go away? #2025MMM
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Paca stares back at the intruding Mouse-deer. GRROOOANNN. A low grumble as Paca grinds her teeth loudly in agitation as the fur along her spine rises. #2025MMM
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Satisfied with his efforts, Mouse-deer turns to continue his patrol of his territory, but instead finds himself staring at a hole and the face of an unfamiliar creature. He freezes, one of his front foot slightly raised. #2025MMM
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On the edge of a different river in Sumatra, the Mouse-deer is moving through the dense underbrush at the edge of his territory. He stop and rubs his jaw along a nearby tree, marking it using the gland under his chin (Ralls et al 1975). #2025MMM
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Moonlight shimmers across the waters of the Brazilian Pantanal, and the Paca is at the opening of her den. She emits a low, grunt (Sabatini et al 2001) and waits for her young precocious pup to follow her out for a night of foraging. #2025MMM
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With a rounded body and thick, strong legs, the paca is a large forest rodent (6 -12 kg, or ~50 stoats). They have sleek chocolate-brown fur with several rows of white spots and broad cheekbones (Perez 1992) #2025MMM
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The mouse-deer is a small, rabbit-sized ungulate weighing between 5 to 8 kg (or ~30 stoats, #StoatsAsMeasurement). A rounded body perched on pencil-thin legs, male mouse-deer have neither horns nor antlers, but small, tusk-like canines #2025MMM
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Aww yay! Hope you enjoy!
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Lol you and me both (on the bat to final roar)