Holocaust: Bald body and terrible stench. This rare bat has learned to accelerate to 100 km/h

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. With regard to the bare-skinned bulldog bat, this is an absolute truth, because many will give him the palm for ugliness, and some will find something charming in him. But regardless of your tastes, its disgusting and almost poisonous smell will not leave anyone indifferent.

Batman had no idea that he called himself, including my name.

The jokes about his specific appearance are all too obvious. Therefore, I will talk about the reason why the mouse traded relative beauty for obvious ugliness. In nature, everything is thought out to the smallest detail, and, as you begin to guess, its specific charm has a practical meaning.

If bats had grandfathers, they would look like this.

The fact is that hair is a beautiful thing, of course, but impractical in flight: hairs increase air resistance and, as a result, reduce flight speed. The evolution of the holoderm was in the direction of better aerodynamics, as a result of which this flying wrinkle lost its dense hairline (it still has small hairs).

But without wool, we can see the brutal muscles of a bat.

Thanks to the nudity and the longest wings among the congeners, the holocather gained the ability to accelerate in flight up to 100 km / h. He is one of the fastest bats in principle! This is despite the fact that the mouse itself is rather big - here it is both a length of 25 cm and a weight of 200 grams.

He is quartered by people, and he is high.

In addition to wrinkles with a bulldog, a bat has giant teeth in common. The stinker does not eat meat in the usual sense to us, he prefers pure protein in the form of a flying arthropod trifle.He finds it with the help of classic echolocation for bats. The fangs are designed to break the thick armor of local beetles.

I think he would also be great for casting a vampire bat.

But the lack of normal wool carries obvious disadvantages. The most important of them is the vulnerability of the skin and membranes on the wings when walking. To solve the latter problem, the mouse came up with the idea of ​​​​folding and tucking huge wings into special bags. So folded wings do not interfere with climbing, and the bald adorable moves very deftly on all fours, clinging to the surface with sharp claws.

This is me trying to stay on the floor during wild helicopters.

And in order for the skin to remain the same elastic and beautiful, the holocaust lubricates it with a kind of cream that is produced in the throat sac. People who somehow miraculously caught an animal and opened this bag a little, received a knockout blow of the smell of burnt skin or two weeks of unwashed socks soaked in motor oil - yes, this is how sophisticated connoisseurs of animal perfumery describe bat ambre.

That face when people around asked: “Who spoiled the air?”

The bald mouse has chosen the largest archipelago in the world - Malay. But it is quite rare due to the fact that the population of bare-skinned bats is very much spread over the islands. But if suddenly you are wildly unlucky and you manage to wander into a lair in which thousands of these lovely creatures can live without worrying, you can simply lose consciousness from the stench. Or charm.

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