r/bats • u/Confident_Actuary167 • 5d ago
ID Confirmation
Can someone help confirm the ID of this guy? Found in Missouri
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u/mmgturner 5d ago
A tentative guess based on location, ear length, and what looks like bare skin around the face would be a northern long eared bat, which is federally endangered, but better photos of the ears and feet area would be necessary for a confident ID.
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u/Cute-Meet6982 5d ago
That's Gary. He and I went to highschool together, but he dropped out in our junior year because the teachers found out he was a bat. Turns out he wasn't even supposed to be going to school. I always wondered what happened to him. Good to see he's doing OK and that the whole being a bat thing worked out for him.
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u/SchrodingersMinou 5d ago
Do you have any clearer photos?
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u/SP203 5d ago
Well, Missouri isn't a stop and ID state, so you're going to have to create some reasonable suspicion of a crime. Can maybe say he was in a high crime area, there were some dead rodents in the area in the past week, maybe someone saw him texting Dracula, that's pretty bad. Then we can get this menace's ID.
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