Also… happy cake day!
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Just looking at flowers works well during the day, when they are trying to attract pollinators with their lovely bright colors. But that doesn’t really help with bats. So that one petal that points up here? I understand the way it is curved acts as a reflector dish, so it shows up nice and bright on their sonar. It’s really meant to listen to. 
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I thought it was really cool to learn that the megabats, the flying foxes, don’t have echolocation. I had no idea, or had completely forgotten. They hunt fruit and flowers by sight. 
ETA: The tube-nosed bats’ nosie tubes even have bi-directional scenting ability.
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Awww! Da belly!
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Communing with Salvador Dali’s ghost?
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Or maybe Picasso, or Georges Braque?
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“What even are cats?!”
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What is that?
Which tropical hellscape do I have to go to catch a glimpse of one?
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Kinkajou, Central/South America.
Don’t feed them if you ever see them in person.
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Hmmm 
But really, they are so cute. With long tongues!
Edit to add: San Diego Zoo says the long tongue helps them get all the nectar out of flowers and honey from bee hives! They stick their tongue in bee hives!
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At the very end is a hand, perhaps reaching for the belly!
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Brand new li’l Goth adorababies!
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tho I shouldn’t be surprised. Sea creatures are often cute and gorgeous. Everyone should post their favs
I love sea slugs
Edits.because the cute panda skeletons are sea squirts and not slugs.
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Those were sea squirts, though. Not related to slugs…actually right next to us vertebrates, except they give up all the swimming anatomy when they settle down to become filter feeders. Though sea slugs often do take their colors from prey, sea squirts included.
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This what I get for watching the video on mute 
corrected
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They say panda, I say raccoon!
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