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When it comes to bat , I believe everyone thinks it is an animal that carries bacteria all over the body. But the bat I want to introduce next can be said to be so cute that it is beyond your imagination.
cute, like a little yellow duck
It is a Honduran white bat, distributed in the lowlands of Central American , including Honduran , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and Panama.
This nose looks like a piggy
They are the beauty in the bat world, and their size is smaller than ordinary bats. According to statistics, the largest body length is only 5 cm.
has milky white fluff, and its nose, ears, wings and legs are all extremely eye-catching orange-yellow. At first glance, it looks like a cucumber bread sold on the roadside.
Round back
They like to use large banana leaves as a temporary habitat, bite the leaf veins extending from the stem of the leaf, and after bite, the other half of the leaf will collapse, forming a natural tent.
I am worried that they will slide down
Such leaves are rainproof and warm. Cleverly, because the petioles are slender and fragile, they can shake when there is wind and grass, so that they can stay alert at all times to avoid natural enemies in time.
doesn't look like a handful of glutinous rice dumplings that have just been out of the pot.
Honduran white bat is a vegetable-eating bat that usually feeds on various nectars, fruits and vegetables. It completely subverts our impression that the gray bats feed on insects.
I really want to poke
It looks like a bunch of cucumber pigs with ears, but they can use carotenoid to make the ears, nose and lips look yellow and orange.
It was not until 2016 that scientists discovered that the digestive system in the Honduran white bats could separate the carotenoid lutein and convert it into esterified lutein, which humans could not do.
Medical research institutions believe that studying their special skills will be of great help in the future in the treatment of diseases caused by lack of macular diseases.
