Clare noticed my dearth of bat photos and went to the trouble of sifting through the many bat images out there to present you with this quad-pack of Chiropterans.
Why does each of them look like they are caught between a sneeze and laughing? That last one's nose really gets to me. It reminds me of one of my kids' spikey play-toys.
BTW, you can click on each of the 'Photo' links to get more species information on each of these four beasties.
Thanks for the links, Clare.
Photo credit: Alex Borisenko, via the Royal Ontario Museum and LiveScience.com
Photo credit: Alex Borisenko, via the Royal Ontario Museum and LiveScience.com
Photo credit: Alex Borisenko, via the Royal Ontario Museum and LiveScience.com
Photo credit: Alex Borisenko, via the Royal Ontario Museum and LiveScience.com
Feb 28, 2007
Four For Your Pleasure
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5 comments:
How do they get the angle so perfect? Is this the Sears bat portrait studio?
Nifty pictures. Bats are very interesting animals.
What you don't realize is, this is the same bat. He's just bloating his face out in a rare pufferfish-like defense display... *grin*
--TwoDragons
The reason they most likely look like that is they are probably using their sonar to figure out what the hell is going on! They look menacing with thier mouths open but often they are just sonaring thier enviroment. I love bats. They are so amazingly marvelous looking!
I wonder if I could use that sonar trick to get my girls to pose properly when we get their portraits taken...
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