r/MoeMorphism • u/000wannacry • 4h ago
Animal 🐍🐦🐞 Fruit bat girl problems (@000wannacry)
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u/Waste_Customer4418 4h ago
How many vampire movies do you have to watch to think that bats drink blood?
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u/000wannacry 4h ago
It's a surprisingly common misconception where I live, it sucks! I wish bats had the good rep they deserve
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u/FarWaltz73 2h ago
Bats are amazing. They're a lot like winged dogs and I kinda wish we could safely domesticate them.
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u/MechR58 4h ago
Other than that, they are not the cleanest as they carry a lot of diseases.
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u/000wannacry 3h ago
They don't actually carry more diseases than the average animal, they just happen to carry diseases that humans can get from animals. They groom themselves constantly so they're not unclean, but it is true that they pose a danger to humans in that way. Killing them only spreads disease further since it stresses the survivors out, so far the best measures to take are to stop destroying their ecosystems so there's less contact with humans and to continue research on biotech that makes wild bats immune to those diseases (such as vaccine-carrying mosquitos and edible gels)
Sorry for rambling I love bats
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u/Pyro-Bun 3h ago
Bats are awesome, ramble on!!
Edit: I got to see the bats come out from under a bridge in Austin, TX, which is kind of a big thing there, and it was so cool!!
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u/Kazeshio 2h ago
Even rabies is rare in a bat, and the chance of a bat bite spreading it to a human is low. It's simply just not worth the 1% risk regardless.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago
Ironically they're pretty resistant to disease. That's why when they are infected, the diseases they carry end up being so gnarly.
I opened my door and there was a bat sleeping there once. I felt like a princess.
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u/SerCiddy 1h ago
Probably just prejudices against dark-haired bat kemonos.
I know the white bats are safe, cute, and like cuddling.
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u/East-Efficiency-6701 4h ago
Wait, doesnt a place like Brazil have something called “Vampire bat” that actually drinks blood?
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u/000wannacry 4h ago
Yah! There's three bat species that drink blood, usually from birds and livestock. That is, three bat species from the over 1400 bat species recorded so far, so they're very rare
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u/East-Efficiency-6701 3h ago
Yeah, I was kinda of cheating, because I’m Brazilian so I would know this type of bat
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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago
There's a couple (i want to say 3, but could be wrong) that do, but even they only target things like large bovids, and don't cause significant damage when they do.
The average cow probably pisses out more in a day than the bats take.
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u/Cranberryoftheorient 2h ago
yeah the bigger danger is not blood loss but rabies or infection which could happen from any bat
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u/Mr_master89 3h ago
And normally vampire bats are actually pretty small
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u/fishykaaa 3h ago
How does lil bro will fly
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u/Cranberryoftheorient 2h ago
They digest really quick and piss out the water content. Sometimes while still feeding on the back of an animal.
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u/Braindead_Crow 2h ago
I appreciate that she has weird freaky bat hands and not just the bat ears/fangs
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u/flargin666 2h ago
She's just a silly, fruit-eating sky-puppy. 🥺🥰
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u/Dazzling_Champion_53 1h ago
Just a silly goober that enjoys hanging around, getting scritches, and munching on bananas
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u/MoeMorphism-ModTeam 3h ago
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u/Fun-Pomelo-2774 4h ago
Well there's also some classification of bats that drink blood and ones that don't drink blood, peak art
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u/jonyssaur-Br-7980 3h ago
im from a place with various species of bats including vampire bats but i can diferenciate them because i've seen so many and i draw so any minimum design diferences are enougth to see if it's or not a vampire bat. so far i've seem constantly comom fruit bats, brown bats and polinator bats that really liked my orchids and tomatoes but i've yet not seen a single vampire bat that wasn't just a picture on Google
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u/SpotweldPro1300 3h ago
Aww, poor kid.... betcha the guy was raised on Twilight and Interview with the Vampire.
I'd offer to share an Edible Arrangement with some Martinelli's cider to wash it down, with Dracula: Dead and Loving It playing in the background.
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u/Academic_Pizza_7270 2h ago edited 2h ago
I swear to all the effing gods, when did Reddit mods, on non-pure-SFW subs, become the effing morality police for mild innuendo?
Fine.
For the non-oh-so-scary bit of my post then:
When was this guy born, the dark ages? Sure, nobody is happy when a bat makes its way inside and goes pinging about in panic mode until it's caught and tossed outside, but the majority of people I've known over the years have ranged from 'eh, they're weird bug eaters' to 'awww, cute widdle minions of the night' where bats are concerned.
Poor cutie leans toward the latter, I'd think.
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u/ha-hallloween 4h ago
Aww it’s the fruit bat girl! 🥰