Comments on: Bats the size of your thumb http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 15:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530176 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530176 http://batsarentbugs.com/images/batsarentbugs.jpg http://batsarentbugs.com/images/batsarentbugs.jpg

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530712 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530712 Wait, these little darlings are smaller than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee_bat">Bumblebee bats</a>?! EEE!!! *stuffs her pockets with them* I love mini animals. Also, the size of a thumb. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~timm/dm/bumblebee.html Wait, these little darlings are smaller than Bumblebee bats?!

EEE!!! *stuffs her pockets with them* I love mini animals.

Also, the size of a thumb. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~timm/dm/bumblebee.html

]]> By: trr http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530214 trr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530214 He doesn't look too happy about having his picture taken during the act... He doesn’t look too happy about having his picture taken during the act…

]]> By: Beanolini http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530471 Beanolini Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530471 I'm not sure that this is really that small for a bat- the <a href="http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/britishbats/batpages/commonpipi.htm">most common species in the UK</a> is about 40mm in body length, and also weighs around 5g. #3, JJR1971: <blockquote> Wow, Bat pr0n on BoingBoing.... </blockquote> jwz's livejournal featured a scary bat-penis picture last week. I would link to it... but I am at work. Incidentally, a friend of mine described his bat detector as a "guaranteed chick magnet". I’m not sure that this is really that small for a bat- the most common species in the UK is about 40mm in body length, and also weighs around 5g.

#3, JJR1971:

Wow, Bat pr0n on BoingBoing….

jwz’s livejournal featured a scary bat-penis picture last week. I would link to it… but I am at work.

Incidentally, a friend of mine described his bat detector as a “guaranteed chick magnet”.

]]> By: thatguyruste http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-529984 thatguyruste Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-529984 Wow...bat's crazy!!! (pun <i>in</i>tended) Wow…bat’s crazy!!!

(pun intended)

]]> By: Pipenta http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530246 Pipenta Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530246 Mini-bats and coelacanth too. What a nifty place! Mini-bats and coelacanth too. What a nifty place!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-529998 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-529998 I like the Maury Povitch-esque pause (...) before confirming the results of the DNA analysis. I like the Maury Povitch-esque pause (…) before confirming the results of the DNA analysis.

]]> By: JJR1971 http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530033 JJR1971 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530033 Wow, Bat pr0n on BoingBoing.... Wow, Bat pr0n on BoingBoing….

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530040 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530040 so, ahh, ya hang out here ,much? so, ahh, ya hang out here ,much?

]]> By: Rio http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530047 Rio Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530047 Once, while climbing, I was bitten by a bat. I introduced my hand into a crack in the rock, heard a hissing sound and felt the bite. Startled me enough to retire my hand from the crack at once byt thankfully not enough to fall. On looking inside the crack I found a little bat fellow looking at me with a half frightened half defiant expression on its little bat face. It was a very small crack (a bit over fingers width but not full palm size) and the small fellow was solidly wedged into the back of it. It could not have been much bigger than my thumb. Its mouth was so small than it could not pierce my skin (although it left two little clear indentations in it). I did not do any research on the bat. I thought that bats so small where common place but may be this one was a juvenile... Once, while climbing, I was bitten by a bat. I introduced my hand into a crack in the rock, heard a hissing sound and felt the bite. Startled me enough to retire my hand from the crack at once byt thankfully not enough to fall. On looking inside the crack I found a little bat fellow looking at me with a half frightened half defiant expression on its little bat face.

It was a very small crack (a bit over fingers width but not full palm size) and the small fellow was solidly wedged into the back of it. It could not have been much bigger than my thumb. Its mouth was so small than it could not pierce my skin (although it left two little clear indentations in it). I did not do any research on the bat. I thought that bats so small where common place but may be this one was a juvenile…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530320 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530320 i remember as a kid seeing all these tiny1.5"- 2" bats that had to be scraped off my uncles truck radiator every summer when he returned from his annual vacation in south America, I remember that when I first saw them I mistook them for moths or butterflies until my family pointed out that they were indeed tiny bats. This happened about 20 yrs ago and one thing that realy sticks out in my head to this day was that every year as he brought in his truck to our family owned repair garage I gradualy started seeing less and less if those small bats on his radiator until eventually I saw none. My uncle always drive the same mountain routes and passes and would always tell me of the changes being done to the country sides in Mexico and Guatemala which makes me wonder if I just happened to see another species of animal slowly disapear and become endangered without anyone noticing this. i remember as a kid seeing all these tiny1.5″- 2″ bats that had to be scraped off my uncles truck radiator every summer when he returned from his annual vacation in south America, I remember that when I first saw them I mistook them for moths or butterflies until my family pointed out that they were indeed tiny bats. This happened about 20 yrs ago and one thing that realy sticks out in my head to this day was that every year as he brought in his truck to our family owned repair garage I gradualy started seeing less and less if those small bats on his radiator until eventually I saw none. My uncle always drive the same mountain routes and passes and would always tell me of the changes being done to the country sides in Mexico and Guatemala which makes me wonder if I just happened to see another species of animal slowly disapear and become endangered without anyone noticing this.

]]> By: Mitch http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530088 Mitch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530088 I like bats as long as they stay out of my house. That's not a happy situation for the human or the bat. If you're drunk or sleeping in a room with a bat you're supposed to get a rabies shot, in case you might have been bitten without being aware of it. I like bats as long as they stay out of my house.
That’s not a happy situation for the human or the
bat.

If you’re drunk or sleeping in a room with a bat
you’re supposed to get a rabies shot, in case you
might have been bitten without being aware of it.

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530094 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530094 A few years back, I was on a public bus at night, and some girls started yelling and running back and forth up and down the bus. Turns out there was a very small bat on board, and when it flew to one end, the girls would run back down to the other end. It was also about thumb sized, not counting wingspan. A few years back, I was on a public bus at night, and some girls started yelling and running back and forth up and down the bus. Turns out there was a very small bat on board, and when it flew to one end, the girls would run back down to the other end.

It was also about thumb sized, not counting wingspan.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530111 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530111 http://www.cdc.gov/RABIES/bats.html http://www.cdc.gov/RABIES/bats.html

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530114 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530114 Curses, more scientists creeping about in the entrance to my underground lair (goes to call Black Smoke Monster)... Curses, more scientists creeping about in the entrance to my underground lair (goes to call Black Smoke Monster)…

]]> By: Itsumishi http://boingboing.net/2009/06/29/bats-the-size-of-you.html#comment-530173 Itsumishi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-530173 Either there's some very large moths around that I'm not aware of, or whoever is writing that article has tiny tiny hands. Either there’s some very large moths around that I’m not aware of, or whoever is writing that article has tiny tiny hands.

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