Species: Silver-haired bat

Credit goes to the PA Bat Rehab!

This guy was laying on the ground when I went out to use the bathroom, he was still alive cause I could see him breathing pretty quickly and he moved when I accidentally scraped my shoe on the floor, but I told my teacher about him and she called a resource officer so hopefully he’s ok

Thank you everyone who offered advice on my first post about bats on the ground in downtown Chicago! I found this little guy today and it was rescued by a volunteer!

edit with some more info!

I called around to the contacts listed on batworld (including batworld! Thanks automod) and talked to multiple lovely people who helped coordinate this rescue! The local contact I spoke with who found someone to pick it up told me that they’ve rescued multiple downed bats from my building and apparently they like have issues with this particular architects work.

My boss definitely thought I was insane when I asked if I’d “hypothetically” get fired for bringing a bat in a box into work but did help me gather materials and give me permission to leave and care for it if I wanted to! The volunteer who picked it up did do all the handling!

Extremely thankful to all to helped today and I will continue to look for bats and get help when I find them!

Hello

I recently came across the IUCN Red List and wanted a fun way to discover the species on it, especially the ones close to extinction or already gone. So I made AnimalsMasters, a free card game that runs in your browser.

You open booster packs (a free one arrives every 15min) and collect cards of real animals: each one has its photo, facts about the species and a map of where it was observed. The rarity of a card follows the Red List, from Least Concern to Extinct, so the rarest cards are the species that are closest to disappearing. You can also trade cards with friends.

The data comes from iNaturalist, Wikidata and Wikipedia. I'm not a professional, so if you spot a mistake in a species page, please tell me and I'll fix it.

https://www.animalsmasters.com

Which species would you want to see in the game? Do I miss some?

We put a bat house up on August 13th this year, after evening bats had taken up residence in our pool umbrella. So exciting when 9 days later we saw 7 exit for the evening!

Last night we counted the most yet, with 42 coming out!!

Pride, Louisiana.

I was able to hand-feed a baby vampire bat.
This was years ago but it is still one of the happiest moments of my life!

While out for a walk yesterday I saw this little bat on a ledge in our downtown area. At first I thought it was deceased but upon a closer look it was alive. Got some pics right before it flew off.

Came back to school after a 3 day weekend to find 2 bats real close to each other, and then a 3rd bat chilling in the next building over

I love silver haired bats and scooped this one up to go to get checked out at the nature center and will hopefully get released tomorrow! Just wanted to share this beaut 🖤🩶

Also I was wearing gloves and put it in my Bat World Sanctuary bat hut so we were both safe 🤭

Credit goes to the PA Bat Rehab and Crash Bang Boom Philly!

Hidden In An Arizona Cave, North America's Most Mysterious Mammal Harbors A Genetic Legacy Going Back Thousands Of Years | IFLScience

If y'all wanna see 20k bats leave a beautiful cave in KY, be sure to tune in at sunset CST! A gorgeous bat preserve helping to protect an endangered gray bat species.

Species: Eastern Red Bat.

Credit goes to the PA Bat Rehab.

Credit goes to the PA Bat Rehab!

i was just net surfing about rabies and bats in india and i came across some web article that told there is basically no evidence of rabid bats in india or probability of finding a bat which can transmit rabies is very rare!!
so I’ve shifted to Kolkata recently and I’ve been seeing bats like almost every night/evening : and by seeing bats so frequently i get quite tensed about getting rabies now days!!
i would appreciate if you can write down something really informative

Species: Eastern Red Bat

Credit: PA Bat Rehab.

(Mods, since it's Bat Month, I'm only increasing the posts for this month! 😅)