The Adorable Bats Thread

[Carnation]

I do have a phobia of bats so I am genuinely interested on how that becomes one. Looking at the cute pictures helps me to see them differently.
I think my phobia comes from my mum telling me they can get caught up in your hair and I have a lot of hair. that and watching too many dracula films when I was obviously too young.
I love animals, so it's a shame I feel this way about bats.

[Carys]

I have never in my whole life heard of one bat being caught in hair, they have absolutely awesome echolocation that can find them a moth whilst both the moth and they are moving at high speed. They swoop and negotiate any complex area with complete confidence and don't ever hit anything - so will never end up in hair or even touch you !

[Carnation]

Thanks Carys. x

[BlueIris]

I think we all have animals that terrify us. I'm irrationally petrified of jellyfish.

[Carnation]

I'll take that as being rhetorical BlueIris.
Keep the cute pics of bats coming, I may grow to love them, that being the purpose of your thread BlueIris

[Carys]

Ahhhhhh, so, jellyfish......my adult daughter and I are both scared of jellyfish (it came from her, as I never thought of them until she came up with it). Looking at them in tanks, fine, see pictures, fine, looking over a boat at them, fine. In the sea, swimming, she is really scared of them drifting into her although it doesn't stop her doing a lot of sea swimming abroad where we can see clearly through the water. I don't think this is actually that 'irrational' blue, as there are many jellyfish that can cause bad stings and nasty injuries and we don't know what is below the surface near us when we are swimming. I put this in the category of rational, and a possible real threat but I guess it depends on if you therefore change your life for the threat level or not, or it stops you doing things, then it becomes less rational.

[Carys]

Each night I stand in my garden and watch the batties swoop around me, they KNOW you are there and will never hit you or come near you, as they are masters of aeuronautic movement. They don't WANT to hit anything, that would be rubbish bat behaviour LOL I think you could grow to love bats Carnation, if you understood them more.

[Carnation]

I think so too Carys
It's the first time I've ever looked at pictures of them.
I never realised how cute they could be.

[Midnight-mouse]

I think so too Carys
It's the first time I've ever looked at pictures of them.
I never realised how cute they could be.

Most people also don’t realise how soft they can be too! I’ve had the privilege of helping feed babies at a local rehabilitation centre. That was the most awesome experience!


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[BlueIris]

Oh, wow, Mouse, you lucky thing!