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Happy Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇

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Can you see the bat sleeping in the snow?❄️ The Ussuri tube-nosed bat (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴), found in Japan, Siberia, & Korea, is one of only two animals known to hibernate in snow- the other being polar bears. 📷Yushi & Keiko Osawa

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So I've heard. 🦇: Spotted bat 📸: Michael Durham

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Peek-a-boo! Is it spooky szn yet? 🦇 🦇 pallid bat 📷 Catherine Fox

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Really makes you think.... 🙏 💯 🙇

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Urgent! ⚠️

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Did...did a bat write this post? 🤔 🦋 📸 : J. Scott Altenbach, Michael Durham/Minden Pictures

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I can't explain, but I feel I've deeply offended this bat somehow. 📸 : Dr. Isabella Mandl

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We won't be taking questions at this time.

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Ladies, if he - Stays out all night - Brings you chocolate - Hangs around during the day - Gets rid of the pests - Echolocates That's not your man, that's a bat. (Sweet 🦇)

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Common mistake. 🤷‍♀️🦇 📸: J Scott Altenbach, Michael Durham/ Minden Pictures, Yushi Osawa ib: @luigi_gaskell

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Protecting bats requires a global conservation approach. 🌍 A healthy planet can support the over 1,460 bat species that inhabit it. And by conserving bats, we ensure they continue to provide the valuable ecosystem services that make Earth home for other wildlife. #EarthDay

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Mondays are a mouthful. 🐟 🦇 greater bulldog bat 📷 Christian Ziegler/Minden Pictures

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Please confirm whether you've seen this bat. 🦇: Black mastiff bat 📸: Sherri & Brock Fenton

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If you were a bat, which diet would you choose? 🦋🌺🐀🍈🩸

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What superpower would you like to have? This Spix's disk-winged bat has #Spiderman like climbing abilities! It can cling to a smooth surface at any angle using its adhesive disks. #WhatMyLifeIsLacking #bats #superpower

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Me on a Monday. 🦇pallid bat 📷Ciara Parenzin

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Thanks, Bats. From pollination to pest control, seed dispersal, and ecotourism, billions of bats are out there every night supporting human and wildlife health. #ThanksBats #BatAppreciationDay #InternationalBatAppreciationDay

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🦇What do you love most about bats? #BatAppreciationDay

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We’re just gonna leave this here…. 📷Catherine Fox

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Earth supports over 1,450 species of bats inhabiting ecosystems across six continents. In order to end bat extinctions worldwide, we have to preserve their habitats. #EarthDay

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Please tell them their hat looks very dapper, indeed 🎩 🤠 🎥 : Melqui Gamba

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Are any of these on your list?

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Oh to be a bat getting a little juice as a treat 😌🦇 📹: Rachel Harper

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Two Trachops Posing Dearly✌ #TTPD 📷 Foto Natura/Minden Pictures

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Name these bats. Wrong answers only. 📷 Melqui Gamba

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It’s always nice to have a helping hand.

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So I'm not the only one who makes silly faces in the mirror. 🤪 🦇brown long-eared bat 📷Sherri & Brock Fenton

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Orange is the new bat. 🧡 Even though they're often depicted as black, bats are a variety of colors, including this bright orange! 🦇 southeastern myotis 📷 Shawn Pladas

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"To conserve the world's bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet." That's our mission and we won't stop. #EarthDay

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Mind your manners! The pallid bat is an impressively tenacious bat, thanks in no small part to its penchant for wrestling & munching on scorpions. Researchers believe that this species may actually be immune to scorpion venom! Want more? Fly on over to

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If you're feeling upside down, I hope this cute bat cheers you up. 🦇 hoary bat 📷 Michael Durham/Minden Pictures

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Me: No, I wasn't eavesdropping. Also me: 📸 : Michael Durham/ Minden Pictures 🦇: spotted bat

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Presenting, the incredibly rare and ever elusive... bat blep 👅 🦇: Chestnut short-tailed bat 📸: Christian Ziegler/ Minden Pictures

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Volume up to hear the chirps of a spotted bat. Unlike most bats, their echolocation calls are within human hearing range.👂 📷 Kathleen Slocum & Sarah Ciarrachi @sciarrachi

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BATS SUCK! These ones, anyway. The suction cups (or disks) on the wings of Spix's disk-winged bats put any spider superhero to shame. These (sky) puppies stick like glue to the Heliconia leaves they call home.

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Who ordered their pumpkin spice bat extra spicy? 🌶️ 🦇western red bat 📷Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca

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Texting about bats can lead to thinking about bats' role in ecosystems, developing an affinity for bats, even acting in ways that save bats! Look for the signals and learn more at . #DareToSaveBats #BatWeek

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October kicks off #BatAppreciationMonth and the countdown to #BatWeek (Oct. 24-31). Tell us: how will you be celebrating bats this month? And if you're looking for inspiration, check out #Halloween

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A #batpoem for your enjoyment, by Anna Ferguson Montague Happy Baturday.

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Don't SCREAM! 👻 The ghost-faced bat is only murderous to insects. #BatWeek 📷 Sherri & Brock Fenton

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New DNA analysis of a Bushveld horseshoe bat (𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳) indicates that bats came from Venus 18 million years ago after flying too high into the planet's atmosphere and being pulled by Earth's gravitational force.

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The cool thing about Bat Summer is it doesn’t matter if you’re a few weeks late to the trend, because Bat Summer never goes out of style 💚 📸: Jennifer Barros

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Not all pollination is pretty! Get to know this messy eater, the pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) 🦇 #PollinatorWeek

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When the All-You-Can-Eat buffet sounds like a challenge... 🦇: Great fruit-eating bat 📸: Christian Ziegler/ Minden Pictures

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What's your fav bat fact? We're all ears. 📷Shawn Thomas

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Might mess around and become so important that the environment couldn’t function without me, IDK 💅 🦇

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Is your child texting about bats? If they are, they're cooler than you.

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Happy Tax Day! It's time to pay the Bat Tax. Please comment 🦂 🦋 🐜 🐞 below to pay your Bat Tax* *If you have not paid your Bat Tax before, you are required to batpay for prior bills at the time. 📸: J Scott Altenbach

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Happy #BatAppreciationDay ! We appreciate the more than 1,400 different species of bats every day! #Bats provide vital ecosystem services in the form of insect pest consumption, plant pollination, and seed dispersal, making them essential to the health of global ecosystems.

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Happy #BatWeek ! From now to #Halloween its batty time! DYK fruit #bats like me are important to the world's forests? We disperse seeds!

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Got any grapes? 🍇 🦇silky short-tailed bat 📷Claus Meyer, Minden Pictures

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Just some bat teef/ teefies/ toofs to kick-start your weekend ❣️ 🦇: Van Gelder's bat 📸: Sherri & Brock Fenton

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Happy Monday from your best pal-lid bat!🦇 ⭐️Research from BCI's Chief Scientist Dr. Frick suggests that pallid bats are more effective at pollinating columnar cacti than some specialized nectar-feeding bats. 📷 Dr. Winifred Frick

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Which diet do you most identify with? Each one plays a role that controls pests, pollinates, disperses seeds, or keeps the ecosystem in check.

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Can we get some #ValentinesDay love for the heart-nosed bat? 💕 📷 Nik Borrow

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What kind of bat is this? Wrong answers only. 📸 : Yushi & Keiko Osawa

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With so many eligible bat-chelors, who are you swiping right on?! 🦇🔥 /1

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Our love for spotted bats and The Princess Bride is what brings us togeva today.

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Upside-down cuddle puddle. 😍 🦇 lesser false vampire bat, 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘢 📷 Charles M. Francis

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When you realize why the greater bulldog bat is called that. 📷 Sherri & Brock Fenton

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(1/2) Today, we join our partners in suing the National Park Service for failing to protect the Endangered Florida bonneted bat, among other threatened species, from the destructive effects of the Miami Wilds water park and retail development in South Florida...

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What kind of bat is this? Wrong answers only. 📸 : Yushi & Keiko Osawa

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🎶 Cutie bottom genes. Bats with the furr. *with the furrrr* 🎶 Tricolored bats get their name from their beautiful gold and black fur. This species is listed as Vulnerable, proposed Endangered. 📷 Sarah Stankavich

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Midwest bat energy✨ 🦇evening bat 📷Michael Durham/Minden Pictures

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mini blep monday. 🦇 Dekeyser's nectar bat 📷 Jennifer Barros

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The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is an impressively tenacious #bat , thanks in no small part to its penchant for wrestling and consuming scorpions. Read more about this amazing bat at

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Simple as that! 🤷‍♀️ 📸 : Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca, Stephen Dalton, Sarah Robinson, Bruce D. Taubert, Sherri & Brock Fenton, Yushi Osawa, Bruce D. Taubert, Yushi & Keiko Osawa.

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🦇We have a huge 𝑩𝑨𝑻 𝑨𝑷𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑪𝑰𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑫𝑨𝒀 announcement! Today, the North American Bat Conservation Alliance released the first ever #StateOfTheBats report.

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Bat to the Future

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moth bye bye ⚰️ 📷Stephen Dalton/Minden Pictures

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We don't know how else to say it. And yes, we really did this:

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We are thrilled to announce the discovery of a new species of a striking orange and black bat in a mountain range in West Africa. A group of scientists led by @AMNH and Bat Conservation International have discovered "Myotis nimbaensis"

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When the teacher tells you to go sit in the corner... How can you be mad at an adorable potato like this?! 🦇 Bechstein's myotis 📷 Jeroen van der Kooij

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🌿Plants: We need to reproduce. 🦇Nectarivorous bats: *Let me do it for youuuu* Thanks to long-faced bats sticking their noses where they do belong, many plants are able to reproduce and the bats are rewarded with sweet nectar. 📷 banana bat, Dr. Rodrigo Medellin

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*howl* Happy Full Moon 🌕 Did you know some bat scientists theorize moon phases impact bat behavior? While some think full moons may support bat hunting efforts, others think full moons make bats more susceptible to predators, causing them to choose to reduce activity that night.

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Feeling those Sunday Scaries... 📸: Yushi & Keiko Osawa 🦇: Japanese long-eared bat

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An angel has graced you with its presence. Ok, it's a Honduran white bat but still... 📷 Melqui Gamba

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#DaylightSavings got us like 🥱 📷Baby Florida bonneted bat

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Them: what's your favorite bat? Me: yes.

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We won't be taking questions at this time. 💅

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The Critically Endangered Jamaican flower bat has been in population decline for over 50 years. At one point, it was even thought extinct! Right now, we have a unique and time-sensitive opportunity to purchase the last remaining parcel of land next to their only known maternity

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Three brown bats, three brown bats. They are not mice, they are not blind. 📷Shawn Thomas

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Are we still doing Friday the 13th? 💀 🦇 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪 📷 Sherri & Brock Fenton

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Caption this. 📷Stephen Dalton/Minden Pictures

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“If you like piña coladas, And hanging out in dark caves—” Wait a minute… 🤔

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Does the question "Which bat species aligns with my zodiac sign?" keep you up at night? Well, you're not alone. Thankfully, we have answers. More details are in our latest blog post.

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🦂If you're not a fan of arthropods, Pallid Bats may be your new favorite pals. Enjoying a diet consisting of scorpions, centipedes, and other creepy crawlies, 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘴 seems to be immune to scorpion venom and enjoys some crunch. 📷 J. Scott Altenback

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Me, a human, and definitely not multiple bats in a trench-coat, trying to solve the reCaptcha. 🦇: Hairy-legged vampire bat 📸: Jennifer Barros

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It's #NationalPuppyDay ! 🦇grey-headed flying fox 📷Vivian Jones

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When the whole crew wants to be in the picture #Squadgoals

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🦇🚨NEW BAT SPECIES🚨🦇 🧵 (1/3) Amanda Grunwald, PhD student at Portland State University, and her collaborators have described a new bat species- 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘰𝘮, or commonly “Mbam Minkom Serotine.”

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The lesser long-nosed bat wants to remind you to do your bat-firmations. 📸: J. Scott Altenbach #iamkenough #batsofinstagram

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AFTER 40 YEARS, WE'VE REDISCOVERED HILL'S HORSESHOE BAT (𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪), A "LOST SPECIES" THOUGHT TO HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN EXTINCT. 📷 Dr. Jon Flanders, Bat Conservation International

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Happy first day of Winter 💟 To celebrate, please enjoy a #batpoem from Callie Smith, PhD.

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"I would like to see the baby." 🌯Sometimes, wrapping bats up like little burritos helps us to examine them while allowing for maximum bat coziness. 🦇Mexican free-tailed bat 📷 Sarah Robinson

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BATS AREN'T BLIND

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Get in formation! These tree posers are actually very sneaky proboscis #bats . Would you notice them? 📷 Murray Cooper/Minden Pictures

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🦂 It's creepy crawly season and pallid bats, 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘴, are revered for their apparent immunity to scorpion venom (although they also enjoy a crunchy centipede on occasion.) 📷 J. Scott Altenbach

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