Comments on: Coelacanth Island Has New Tiny Bat {+ Photo}

By: CryptoInformant 2.0

CryptoInformant 2.0 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:05:22 +0000

Ummm… I’ll call it… Fuzzy-Wuzzy. Why?

Because Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a bear, and everyone who watches the Colbert Report knows that bats are really just tiny flying bears.

By: CryptidHuntr

CryptidHuntr — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:10:45 +0000

awwww looks cute….Thanx Loren!!!!

By: odingirl

odingirl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:08:27 +0000

Okay, I’ll confess as well: I like bats, and yes, I think they’re ‘ugly cute’. I’m glad to see another variety thriving somewhere. Years ago I came to work one morning to find one laying on the floor of the hallway in front of a large window, where it had repeatedly bashed itself attempting to get out before collapsing on the floor. It was alive, but just barely, and very weak. So….(and yes, in retrospect this was pretty stupid)….I got a towel and picked it up by one delicate wing, then warmed him up in the towel a little and….gave him a slurp of water from a teaspoon. That seemed to bring him out of it a little and I eventually took him outside and watched him crawl to safety under the deck for a much-needed rest. I know, he could have been rabid, but I just can’t resist me some fledermaus.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:24:31 +0000

Bozakgrundle:

Truly sorry about that. No joke. I have bad hangups too.

On the other hand…
One way to combat this is to enroll yourself in the “Bruce Wayne School Of Handling Bat Phobias.” Will fix you straight up.

By: WOLVES-TALON

WOLVES-TALON — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:17:22 +0000

AAAwwww, not exactly what I mentally pictured, But still beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I have to add this though. If you squint, and fuzz out your sight, kinda looks like a squatch with really big ears ! Sorry Loren…but I had to say it.

Thanks Loren….
AKA
“The Bog Blogger”

LOL

By: The Y2J Problem

The Y2J Problem — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:28:26 +0000

Thanks for the pictures. I wish there was a size comparison in the picture.

By: bozakgrundle

bozakgrundle — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:31:27 +0000

Thanks, Loren.

Ever since encountering a dioriented, possibly rabid one in a garage as a child, I have had an extreme, morbid (I’m not going to say irrational, ’cause the things are hideous) fear of bats. So I blithely click onto the ‘Mundo for my daily dose of Crypto-news and… promptly had a near-soiled-myself-experience.

I’ll get over it. It’s okay. Really. S’fun.

Thanks again, Loren

By: MattBille

MattBille — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:29:18 +0000

Just for reference, Kitti’s hog-nosed bat from Thailand keeps the “smallest mammal” record at 2 grams.

The Cuban bee bummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) the smallest of all birds, is also listed at two grams or a little less, so we can regard 2g as near the minimum for warm-blooded animals.

The “10 mammals a year” statement is off: I believe the figure for the past 15 years is 408, giving about 27 a year. Maybe they are only counting new species from the field, not reclassifications or museum-vault finds.

By: cliff

cliff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:38:30 +0000

Thanks for the photos, pretty cool.

I don’t want to be a pain or anything, but some photos allowing for size reference would be even cooler.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:14:45 +0000

Very interesting news and Loren came through with the photos. Excellent.

Cryptidsrus- That’s funny, these little guys were probably saying the same thing about the human researchers who were studying them. “Ugly, but in a cute way!”