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myenterpriseisparked · 2 years

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fact about bumblebee bats? i miss your bat facts

HI SORRY IT'S BEEN A HOT MINUTE SCHOOL IS HARD BUT HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Bumblebee Bats/Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bats/Craseonycteris thonglongyais are the world's smallest mammal. Yeah, there's a shrew that might be a tad smaller by dimensions depending on the specimens you are comparing but, listen, Bumblebee Bats are definitely the smallest by weight and also most of the time by size so we're going with the bats for that award title. THEY WEIGH AS MUCH AS A DIME!!!!!!!!!!! INSANE!!!!!! (Official dimensions put the little lads at 29 to 33 mm (1.1 to 1.3 in) in length and 2 g (0.071 oz) in mass.)

Now a lot of people out there will post pictures of bat dolls and claim they're Bumblebee Bats so it's hard to find accurate pictures of them online but here is one to show you HOW INSANELY FREAKING SMALL THEY ARE. LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. LOOK AT YOUR OWN HAND. IMAGINE.

(p.s. handling your imaginary bat barehanded is fine but real bats should be handled with gloves)

Anyway, this bat is native to Thailand and consumes insects and spiders using their handy-dandy super flying skills. Like most bats, they're highly acrobatic. Being this small, they might be mistaken for an insect flying through the night sky which is super convenient if you eat insects because you blend right in. Sneaky.

As you can see in the photo above, these bats have kind of a snubby nose which is why they are more formally known as Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat. The "Kitti" part of their name and the "thonglongyais" part of their scientific name come from the man who discovered them in 1973, Kitti Thonglongya, a Thai biologist.

As of right now, it is estimated that only about 4,000 individual Bumblebee Bats in the wild which has earned them the title of "Near Threatened" on the IUCN list BUT this bat is facing fast habitat loss due to development and human disturbance so "Near Threatened" is very bad indeed. A lot of biologists insist that this species is facing extinction.

ANYWAY happier quick facts:

They're wings are shaped in a such a way that suggests an ability to hover during flight which is RAD.

They only hunt for 30 minutes at the beginning of the night and 20 minutes right before morning.

The females have 1 baby a year and usually carried the kiddos to work with them and kiddo has to hang on to momma via a vestigial (non-functioning) nipple in her pubic area. Whack.

They hunt near cassava plants are vital to pest control.

Here's one last rad lad for the road ;)

#I wish I had more to say about the lads but sadly there isn't an abundance of information #but golly do I love KHNBs #What marvelous littel friends #what joyous dudes #how splendiferous #thanks for asking!!!!!!#bats #kitti's hog nosed bat #bumblebee bats

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k-chips · 3 years

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SPOILER FOR LOKI EP 5

Littel big outburst

I.... I didn't like this episode... And I'm not actually liking the whole series as I wanted to do....

This stupid forced romance is making me hate It and no, it's not because I ship Lokius, it's not about ships, it's about bad writing, forced relationship and no sense romance.

Loki's and Sylvie's relationship changed too fast in the worst episode in the show (the third) and It has no freaking sense. That episode felt like a filler and so did their relationship. They went from "I don't know who you are and I don't trust you" to "Ok I trust you, you're amazing, oh my gosh I love you" in literally 2 scenes. I mean, what the fuck was that?

ALSO.

Loki, my dear boy... after watching THE ONLY PERSON WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVED IN YOU being KILLED in front of your eyes, you don't care about finding him the moment you realize he can be alive? You don't care about how he feels when you see each other again? After he found out everything he know, his whole life, Is a big ass lie? And after BEING KILLED BY HIS SO CALLED FRIEND?

And you said the only person you trust Is SYLVIE??? You only wanted to escape because of her? You really wanted to do something only because you saw HER being different? REALLY, LOKI? NOT MOBIUS? REALLY, MARVEL? THE FUCK WAS THAT?

I hated how careless Loki seems to be about Mobius in this ep... and for what? Because he has to flirt with Sylvie? Seriously? The other two Loki variants, who are strangers for Mobius, were the ones who asked him how he was feeling after everything. TWO STRANGERS. Two literal strangers worried about him more then his FRIEND.

Even Sylvie told Loki that Mobius really care about him and Loki DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. Didn't went like "Yeah you're right, mybe I should go to him and see if he's ok". NO.

This Is why I'm saying the writing Is bad. The Loki we saw in episode two and four would never leave Mobius alone and would actually ask him how he's doing. But noooooo we need the Disney Channel teenager couple.

At least we had a hug started by Loki, one of the few in character scene in this episode.

Again, I don't care if Lokius isn't canon, I would love to see Loki, Mobius and Sylvie just as a chaotic trio, they would be great just like that, I don't really expect the ship to be canon, but this? This Is just wrong, Sylvie and Loki? No. This bad writing? Absolutely not.

Please, Marvel. No.

You did a relally good job writing Wanda and Vision and Sam and Bucky, please, don't turn this series' relationships to trash.

#loki #i had to vent #sorry but this is it.#this series is making me so upset #marvel why can't you write a decent love story?#the only really good one is Wanda and Vision #even Scott x Hope and Tony x Pepper aren't so great #marvel what the fuck #now I'm both sad and angry #loki series #sylvie #mobius

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