These charming photographs of bats are far from how these animals are often perceived, tied with fictional villains or accused of real diseases, recently Covid-19, because of the viruses that they contain.
But mammals deserve much greater sympathy and attention, says Ecologist Jossy Joveel, based at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel, in his upcoming book Brilliant bat: understanding of our most mysterious mammalField Although bats make viruses, the data indicate that Sars-2 Coronavirus I did not come out directly from them. In any case, he said, bats are a vital part of the ecosystems, pollination of plants and maintaining insect populations under the control of.
In more than 1,400 types of bats, there are endless variations. Take the resourceful Honduran white bats (ECTHOPHYLLLA SUNRISEhigher). These snowy chubby balls are found throughout Central America, where they create temporary tents from large plants such as Heliconias to sleep.
Then there is a long batting mouse Pallas (Glossophaga soricinaBelow), who loves nectar, using the tongue with the length of his body to strike deep into flowers, like a banana plant. These bats insert and remove their tongues up to 10 times a second, collecting nectar.
The first image is an amazing horseshoe – a flying mouse for trilians (Rhinophus trifolatatus) whose nose has the shape of a three -leaf clover. The bat is antisocial: after hunting small insects at night, the majority of horseshoe -shaped bats return to their fuck, but trilizing prefer to sleep alone on the branches, only in a meter or so above the ground.
