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What's up with Bats and Bananas?
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Assuming you’re talking about those cute videos of bats being fed bananas while being nursed back to health. Every video I’ve seen was of a fruit bat which eats… fruits. Bananas, mangos, dates, avocados, and any type of pulpy fruit. Peeled bananas are probably easier to feed to them than say an avocado. They just happen to look adorable doing it.
So short answer that’s the kind of foods that type of bat eats. Other kinds of bats (arguably less cute kinds of bats) prefer things like insects.
A fruit bat
And a brown bat
Brown bats are still adorable nuggets in their own way! Just wee flapmice nibbling mosquitoes and pollinating our flowers.
"Flapmice" hahaha, I'll be stealing that!
"Flittermouse" is an actual alternative name for a bat.
Ooh, like that too!
Yeah; that brown bat is still cute and I like the expression it's making in the picture.
Brown bat is like "why you callin me less cute, bitch?!" 😅🥺
One is a flying fruit puppy, the other is a flying demon.
Why not apples? Is there a reason apples aren't a preferred fruit of bats?