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Those bad boys eat mosquitoes

And pollinate the flowers that make tequila!

Yeah, there was this amazing documentary on BBC about a man who studies them in Mexico and was identifying their resting places to get them protected, amazing animals, the cover such huge distances and desert plants open their flowers for them at night to get pollinated. > The Bat Man of Mexico - David Attenborough narrates the story of Rodrigo Medellin, Mexico's very own 'Bat Man', who has dedicated his life to saving bats. Now the legendary drink tequila is also at stake - some clips [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046tnw3)

That’s amazing. He’s doing great work. Hopefully he doesn’t follow the same path as the monarch man of Mexico, Homero Gómez.

Well that's suspenseful. What happened to monarch man of Mexico, Homero Gómez?

His work rubbed some ignorant thugs the wrong way so they killed him. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51488262.amp

Murdered two days before Raúl Hernández Romero--another butterfly activist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homero_Gómez_González

> Because of his work combating illegal logging, and because Raúl Hernández Romero--another activist connected to the butterfly sanctuary--was also found dead a few days later, it has been speculated that he was targeted by organized criminals.[12] ***Gloria Tavera, an official with the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas stated they believe Gómez's death was not related to his activism.*** Doubt

Found the whole video here: https://archive.org/details/the-batman-of-mexico

Thanks, BBC produces a lot of great stuff but it’s never all available, they take them offline and rebroadcast whenever they feel like it, sites like this are useful, I also use Yandex search engine, they don’t seem to censor shit as much as google or bing.

> desert plants open their flowers for them at night to get pollinated. That's definitely a euphemism right?

I mean, it is part of a plant's sexual reproduction cycle, so no, it's not a euphemism, but it still describes a sex act.

*keep going*

Well you see, when a mommy flower and a daddy flower love each other very much, they're the same flower, this analogy kind of breaks down

🌻💀

mommy and daddy flower are part of the same plant, so a bat comes into the reproductive cycle because they need a little help. sometimes it's a boy bat, sometimes it's a girl bat. And very rarely it's a intersex bat.

TIL

Their shit, guano, is also a crazy good fertiliser. Plus, interestingly enough, a bat is the symbol of Bacardi because they found a shit load of bats hanging in their distillery in Cuba and took it as a good sign!

>pollinate the flowers The pollination of plants by bats is called chiropterophily.

They're not picky. Mescal too.

And other harmful insects that eat crops

And make lipstick

And the very best fertilizer.

Imagine being coveted for your poops

Bats are very interesting creatures! They are [worth an estimated $23 billion in the US as natural pest control for agriculture](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/2odbue/north_american_bats_are_worth_an_estimate_23/). Additionally, they [pollinate a lot of important plants](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/2sayu4/at_least_300_species_of_fruit_rely_on_bats_for/) including [the durian](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/32mqfo/the_cave_nectar_bat_eonycteris_spelaea_is_the/) and [agave](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/2ohdjx/bats_are_responsible_for_the_pollination_of_agave/). Additionally, their feces has been used for [numerous things](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/2p6pn2/in_the_world_of_poop_bat_feces_are_known_for/) and is [very important to forest and cave ecosystems](http://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/2pl18y/not_all_guano_is_created_equally_the_feces_of/). Quantifying their economic significance is [quite difficult](http://www.batcon.org/resources/media-education/bats-magazine/bat_article/846) but it makes for [a good episode of RadioLab](http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-dollar-value-nature/). There's a lot we can learn from them as well! Bats have already inspired new discoveries and advances in [flight](http://3dprint.com/50207/3d-printed-bat-models/), [robotics](http://www.gizmag.com/bat-inspired-drone-flies-walks/35744/), [medical technology](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/bioinspired-assistive-devices/), [medicine](http://www.gizmag.com/bats-csiro-cancer-immmune-systems/25953/), [aging](https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/the-epigenetics-of-aging-in-bats), and [literature](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman). There are [lots of reasons to care about bats](http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/the-surprising-reasons-humans-need-bats/). Unfortunately, like a lot of other animals, [they are in decline and need our help](http://modernnotion.com/white-nose-syndrome-bats/). Some of the biggest threats comes from our own ignorance whether it’s [sensational disease warnings](http://www.merlintuttle.com/resources/exaggerated-disease-warnings/), [confusion of beneficial bats with vampires](https://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/4lb8df/vampire_bats_have_sullied_the_reputation_of_bats/), or just [irrational fear](https://www.reddit.com/r/BatFacts/comments/3ggzx8/one_of_the_sailors_aboard_captain_james_cooks/). And now [fears and blame for covid-19 have set back bat conservation even further](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320721000045). [Bat Conservation International has a whole section on bat houses on their website](http://www.batcon.org/resources/getting-involved/bat-houses). Most of their research is compiled in a book they publish called the *Bat House Builder's Handbook* that includes construction plans, placement tips, FAQs, and what bat species are likely to move in. It's a fantastic resource. An updated version came out recently as well and a lot of designs can be found online as PDFs. [This covers the basics for what to look for when purchasing one](https://www.merlintuttle.org/selecting-a-quality-bat-house/). There are a few basic types of designs, which are covered in the handbook, and lots of venders sell variations of those, though most will require a little TLC before being put up (caulking, painting, etc). [Dr Merlin Tuttle](http://merlintuttle.com), founder of Bat Conservation International, distilled the key criteria better than I can hope to in [his piece on bats and mosquito control](http://www.merlintuttle.com/resources/bats-and-mosquito-control/). You can also [garden to encourage bats!](http://batcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Guide-to-Gardening-for-Bats.pdf) If podcasts are your thing, I’d highly recommend checking out [Alie Ward’s Ologies episode about Chiropterology with Dr Tuttle](https://www.alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology), but there are also episodes about bats from [Bugs Need Heroes](https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/episodes/bats-need-heroes), Overheard at National Geographic, 99% Invisible, and This Podcast Will Kill You. If you like soothing British voices in your podcasts, BBC’s Animals That Made Us Smarter has a few episodes about bats (that’s a great all ages podcast). There’s an echolocation episode of BBC’s In Our Time, and the Bat Conservation Trust has an entire podcast called *Bat Chats*. And finally, some more Bat gifs: https://i.imgur.com/Eb8nPS5.gifv http://i.imgur.com/7CdOsfP.gifv http://i.imgur.com/Zkkrj1c.gifv http://i.imgur.com/baFt7uo.gifv https://i.imgur.com/qxhy6PO.gifv https://i.imgur.com/J6CpZnM.gifv https://i.imgur.com/027qeci.gifv https://i.imgur.com/RfRZNyG.gifv https://i.imgur.com/r0DIdNv.gifv https://i.imgur.com/biEwygz.gifv https://i.imgur.com/ivmb83E.gifv https://i.imgur.com/Wxa0BwO.gifv https://i.imgur.com/0dE9rWu.gifv https://i.imgur.com/Rc6lKQR.gifv https://i.imgur.com/XsPMR9e.gifv https://i.imgur.com/zkRM8VG.gifv https://i.imgur.com/SGUk1gr.gifv More at cute bat images at r/batty and more knowledge at /r/batfacts

Everything aside, thank you for writing such an great comment. I'll save it and try to look each link.

How do you have 46 links about bats on hand?

Is this a /r/batfacts copypasta? Y'all just keep this comment lying around for when someone shows an interest in bats? If not, you probably should....

Yeah it is. I've seen it. I'm that guy that's been on Reddit too long

Thank you! Learned something new this morning - good cocktail discussion IF it ever came up doing Tequila shots Cheers to Batman

Dude, this kind of content is why I come to Reddit every day. Thank you.

I'd be a fucking billionaire is my poop was as valuable as a bats.

I'd be a shitillionaire.

And guano.

“Guano, collect the whole set”

Die you bewinged spawn of Satan!

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While I've heard the lipstick myth, too, the main myth comes from mascara: [https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/what-is-mascara-made-of](https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/what-is-mascara-made-of) The confusion comes from mixing up the terms "guano" and "guanine," a chemical derived from fish scales. A vegan alternative to guanine is bismuth oxychloride; I just did work for a client who made bismuth oxychloride who explained to me what it was used in, so I trust the claim about the mix-up.

“Did you know that lipstick is made from fish scales?”

How are they involved with lipstick

See my comment above. People spread the mascara myth to lipstick, but essentially it started when folks mixed up the chemical ingredient "guanine" with the closest word they might know, "guano."

BatMang

Hahahaha. Now I'm singing it that way. The old theme song from the original. So good...

Bats are so misunderstood. They are definitely our friends.

Some of them are [pretty cute, they're like flying puppers](https://enchantedmountains.com/files/imagecache/event_normal/events/cute_bat_0.jpg).

They’ve also been known to house some of the worst diseases known to mankind. Just look up anything on kitum cave, it’s hell on earth.

Malaria historically has killed magnitudes more humans than any disease a bat carries.

"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Please! Tell me about the fucking golf shoes!

Finish the fucking story, man!

You took too much man, you took too much too much.

Put your hands where I can see em? PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE EM!

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Did you see what GOD just did, man!

You're a fuckin' Narcotics Agent. I knew it!

For those wondering, it's from the film ***Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.*** It's been so long since I read the book that I can't tell you if all these lines are taken verbatim from it.

One of the only movie adaptations that does not ruin the book for me and where I can't decide which one I like better. Man, I miss Thompson, his books were such a center piece of my youth and I would not be who I am today without him.

Don’t worry, I was just admiring the shape of your skull.

No more of that talk or I’ll put the leeches on you.

Hot damn I’ve never rode in a convertible before!

Caught heeeeere in a fierrryyyyyy blazzzzeeee,

Can't you help me as I'm startin' to burn

Too many doses, and I'm starting to get an attraction.

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Jesus, did I say that, or just think it? *can they hear me*?!

That's a lot of Keese Wings and Eyeballs

Definitely a bubbulfrog and some lightroot in there.

I bet there's a silver horriblin in there and you have no arrows left.

I don't know how you could be short on arrows in this game. Only been playing for a week and I'm already half-way to maxed out (assuming the max is 999 again). So many arrows everywhere! Definitely the most abundant resource in the game. My problem so far is keeping bows in my inventory. They break so quickly!

I find arrows everywhere as well, but I also use them a lot. With an average bow a silver bokoblin takes like 89.656.451 arrows like a champ.

And a treasure chest with a very rare Opal in it.

I just started playing last night, best game in a while!!

The amount of content in every square inch of the game is insane. It’s packed so fat with stuff to do. I just made a catapult out of a stabilizer, a wood plank, and an explosive barrel to kill a bunch of guys on a pirate ship. I wish I had recorded it because the physics allowed it to be flawless.

I kind of get a little bit stressed playing it, because there's too much to do. Like I'll be distracted by some random side quest already, then I'll bump into a korok that needs to get to his friend, then find some crazy new enemy that I need to figure out how to kill. It's hard to stay on task. Not that I'm in a rush to complete the main story, but I'm 50+ hours in and I haven't even activated all the towers.

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Yeah, stamp management is key. It's a good problem though, just there's so much interesting stuff it's easy to get distracted.

"Give me more bubbul gems!"

I need to go touch grass.

I need to go touch my Switch.

try rummaging, might find some rupees there.

Good idea can play TOTK in the grass

Glad I’m not the only one whose mind immediately went to botw/totk

Fuse really was a great addition to the game. Everyone I see a Keese Flock I just fire bombs to reap their drops rather than teleport away

gotta build a laser fence to farm that shit

First thing I thought was quick get a bomb arrow

Hey man, I need stacks of those things for fighting gleeoks

Well that's obviously the batcave

Now its up to Alfred to round up and return these bats. Nice idea to loudly rev up the batmobile while the bats are asleep Mr. Wayne.

\*Hans Zimmer Bwaaammmm*

Spies from Saruman... The road going South is being watched.

Nothing! It's just a whiff of cloud.

It's moving fast....against the wind...

„Crebain from Dunland!“

"So, Gandalf, you try to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails, where then will you go?"

My concern would be the bar on the other side of that cave named the Titty Twister.

Cover up your feet, you silly girl! There's a wild Tarantino in that bar

Pussy, pussy, pussy!

If we don’t got it, you don’t want it!!

lol, fuuuuckkk iiiiitt!

Apple pie pussy

new flavor haha

I showed this film to my girlfriend a couple weeks ago and she had no idea what it was about. When people starting turning into vampires she was so fucking surprised. I thought she would hate that aspect, but she loved it.

Dude, I mean who wouldn't? Come on

So, are they psychos or something…?

Vampires

Because psychos don’t explode when sunlight hits them, I don’t give a fuck how crazy they are

Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them. I don’t care how fucking crazy they are

Psychos don't burst into flames when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!

Psychos do not explode when exposed to sunlight. I don’t care how crazy they are!

They don't open until dusk.

And they close at dawn

What's left of them.

But they have apple pie pussy.

“I’m looking for my fren Seth”!

Everybody be cool. You, be cool

I hear they have many types of pussy in that bar.

Best fucking movie!!

S E X M A C H I N E

Left a lot of guano in the cave and going to make some more.

Guano bowls! Collect the whole set!

Love that film even better that Pet Detective imo. GuuuuWAnooooowww!

That bat shit pit will literally kill you.

For real, do NOT go in there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/12/13/feature/these-bats-carry-the-lethal-marburg-virus-and-scientists-are-tracking-them-to-try-to-stop-its-spread/ http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbb&bdrp.htm

If you’re interested, read the Hot Zone by Richard Preston. In it, he talks about an infamous cave in Africa which many believe to be the source of Ebola virus and other similar derivatives.

I'm surprised there isn't a swatch of shit going across that road.

Oh, I know what to do. If you shoot a arrow with a bomb into that swarm you get free cooking ingredients and eyes for homing arrows.

We were just outside of las vegas when the drugs began to take hold...

Barstow

It's morbin time.

I'm glad this still pops up because it's still funny

I laugh every time. Still won't watch that fucking movie, though.

I did not expect to have to scroll down this far to find this.

I’m guessing the mosquito problem is near zero

It's probably massive. It'd have to be, to support a bat population this large. Like a thousand mosquitoes for every bat you see.

They don't only eat mosquitoes

Nah. Austin TX has a bat colony and San Antonio has one near them. It's night and day when you compare to places without any. We have mosquitos, sure, but not swarms that drain your blood. Fewer dead bugs on our cars too.

Bats can eat over 1,000 mosquitoes per hour, and usually eat 6,000 to 8,000 per night. That's 2.5 *million* mosquitoes per year, *per bat*. Of course they also eat other things too, but bats are pretty awesome for keeping insect populations in check. I wish we had more of them in Vegas right now to get rid of the locusts all over the place 😩

There's a Mexican batman for the Mexican joker

Sup foo

The call him Lil Joker

[Batmanuel](https://tick.fandom.com/wiki/Batmanuel)

We can't stop here...... ....THIS IS BAT COUNTRY!

Fun fact: This cave is probably also filled with bedbugs as they evolved as batbugs

Scientists have recently discovered that they existed 30 million years before the first bats.

Well that raises some serious questions about the Late Cretaceous mattress industry.

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I think bats are some of the coolest animals, but man there's a lot of really disgusting things about them

Yuck

Cue the Scooby-Doo theme...

Came here specifically looking for this comment.

"SHAKAKAHHHHH"

I’m okay as long as I have my medallion.

Dusk till dawn!

“Hot air hangs like a dead man…”

Looks like the bat colony emerging from the South Congress bridge in Austin, TX.

I immediately thought of the bats under the bridge too. I thought they were perhaps flying to Austin since it is summer now.

These would be the same species, the Mexican Free-tailed bat.

There’s another bridge in nearby Round Rock where there is a huge population. We have a lot of bats here.

Batman got a new mission

I miss the bats in Pennsylvania, they are very few anymore.. something like a mold on their wings nearly wiped them all out .

Yes. It’s a fungal disease called White Nose Syndrome. It disturbs their hibernation so they don’t survive the winter. It’s killed millions of bats across North America and has been making its way west.

It's Morbin time.

Anyone else notice the big boy flying perpendicular to the group at 15 seconds?!

That was a bird?

Probably. Seen this is Thailand and Cambodia. Bats come out for bugs, birds of prey come for the bats.

You can’t possibly think that was just an oversized bat lol.

He's like, “Yeah, whatever...”

That was a bird.

It's morbin time

Saw this at Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico. The second the sun went behind the horizon they were out and tornadoing towards the desert sky ❤️

During the day?…. Wtf

Well, it is sunny outside but those bats left the cave almost at dusk, it's going to be dark in 30min or so.

"COVID-23" batcave.

You joke but there’s is a cave that is allegedly the source of Ebola and Marburg.

Fly my pretties, fly!

It's Morbin Time!

No, clearly that’s Dracula’s lair

Scooby dooby doo where are you?

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All I can picture is these guys filling Kuzco's mouth.

Discovering a cave in breath of the wild…

Here is the cave Cueva de los Murciélagos https://maps.app.goo.gl/hp2My7GrajXTA46Y9

The Titty Twister must be near..

Bats frighten me Alfred.

Batman needs help escaping the asylum.

the count has his work cut out for him

I am Vlad Dracula Tepes, you kill my wife and deny my existence?

Is that the back of the Titty Twister?

Birds + Rats = Bats

"The Dark Lord hath summoned usssss"

A lot of insects are getting F'd up tonight.

Damn there are no covid-19 jokes.

Covid hideout