General Discussion & Chat: Greater fishing bat for mings, 1 by philomel

philomel wrote:
Here's the fella i promised you. Bats tend to look rather weird to us because their faces are adapted to pick up their echolocation calls so they can navigate at night. They aren't blind, but use this to find their way around when it's too dark to see well with eyes.
Also their hands are altered to make a wing. Their thumb is the little hooky thing at the top of the wing and the fingers are all very elongated and joined with skin to enable them to fly (the only mammal that can)

They really are nice animals, just that we don't see them close up often and are not used to the way they're put together, so we think it looks strange. The unknown is always a little offputting, but they're cute when you get to know them - honest :)