Hippo's Wild World of Animals - Random Animal Facts

Okay, bit different thing here but want to see if anyone will pay attention and I'm sure we're all animal lovers of some stripe, maybe all besides goats. Anyway, wish to point your eyes towards an Indiegogo campaign being run by a friend whose dog has the cancer and needs treatment. Looking for donations, see what you can give to help a friend of a friend out.

life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/maxi-needs-cancer-treatment

It's not you, you're a satyr, totally different:

Out of curiosity Billiam Man-goat, Satyr of Action, do you tend to bounce around when walking like your legs have springs which tighten and then release at random intervals?

I'd be intrigued by such a thread.

That site is doing such a better job than me!

So they're pop culture news, I'm worthy pop culture news?

@cub  I like these animal photos a lot: 

thisrecording.com/today/2014/7/22/in-which-you-helped-pull-my-bicycle-out-of-the-water.html

This week's animal is the fruit bat, a weird bird/rat/fox thing! Okay, that's not the best description for them but I had "snake-cats of the waterways" for otters last week and it's hard to top it.

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We all know bats probably vant to suck your blahd but thing is many actually don't behave like overgrown mosquitoes, some would prefer a nice fruitbasket or bouquet if you have one going.  So what's their deal? The fruit bats I mean, the rest eat bugs and aren't fit for discussion here.




The fruitbats, part of the order of Megachiroptera, are the largest type of bat and reside mainly in Southern Asia. Though part of a group which literally means "large bat", the sizes of fruitbat vary going from 2 inches upto 6 feet in wingspan and many of the bug-eater type can grow to be similar sized, just not as large.

Unlike the other insect-eating cretins of the bat world, the elegant fruit bat does not rely on echolocation but instead have large eyes with which to see in the dark and will normally roost on trees, not in caves.

Fruit bats eat fruit, obvious enough, they also use their long anteatery tounge to drink nectar from flowers but generally most of their "food" intake is either fruit pulp or nectar.


Most bats are disease carriers but to make up for it (or make it worse), it is one of the only flying mammals and no, gliding does not count as flight, stop saying it does flying squirrels!



You might also wonder why bats wrap themselves in their wings when roosting, this is for encapsulating heat in the air and lookin' goood. Mostly heat though, gets cold at night and the wings help retain and move heat around their torsos.


Bat wings are generally very interesting, bats start being able to fly a few weeks from birth and the inner surfaces of their wings are like fingertips allowing them to use their wings more dexterously and quicker than birds in flight. They also have the ability to repair most small tears in their wings quickly which sounds interesting until you notice you do that too, just not with thin membranous wings but you would if you could, of course. Wings with which to swoop onto your unsuspecting victim and hug them from behind before vanishing into the night... mmm.

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To end things I give you what you came for, cute pictures!

The only thing I know about the wolverine is that it's related to the otter and also called a skunkbear so sure, it's like a land-locked platypus so it's on the subs bench. Thanks for being nice about my thread!

This is also my 4,000th post, yay for me!!

They're hairy and gross, right? C'mon, this is taking all day!

Funky bear-dogs with ferret ears.

Bats aren't bugs, they eat bugs but these ones don't, did you read the article? I feel like you're not paying full attention.