my sister was bit by a moose…
Yes!
COOL!!
that’s a colossal squid, alright!
A baby one, too!!! SO KAWAAIIIII!!!
I must recco checking out their live streams at night, when The Captain’s in his Corner, partaking of his personal nom noms, while smol fruit bats and micros go flapping about.
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Piccalilli!!!
Her full name, as she was known then, was Piccalilli Porkchop Twinkletoes, in case you were wondering…
bats are cool!
we need bats in the keys. the way they can devour mozzies is legendary. but we also have dragonfruit cactus that needs bats to pollenate them.
fun history from the conch republic:
there was a “bat tower” constructed on Sugarloaf Key, ostensibly to rid the island of skeeters, in order to facilitate greater tourism.
no bat ever lived there, sadly.
hurricane irma finished off the well intentioned, but never realized Bat Tower of Sugarloaf.
Damned shame it didn’t work!!!
Th’ best laid plans of (fleder) mice and men…
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When y’all have 20 minutes to spare, do please spend them with dear Clawed. U’ll be ever so glad U did!
The thumbnail image there: “I have so many grapes in my mouth right now, my eyeballs don’t fit any more.”
That is commonly discussed by batty rescuers and carers!
“I love it when they get chipmunk cheeks, and it pulls on their eyelids so you can see the whites of their eyes!”
“ducks, oh ducks”.
“ducks, wonderful ducks”.
“What will you say when the ducks come”?
~ Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes, “When the Ducks Come” (1977)
What you need is obviously a bell tower.
Build a bell tower, and bats will come.
Call it the Bela Lugosi Bat Sanctuary & Blood Bank.
Add some kind of symbol that alerts bats, it would have to be large and bright to be visible at night.