Friday, January 28, 2011

Bat Size Comparison

Watching bats flit about the night sky, it can be very hard to get a good impression about their color, shape and size. From the last few posts I posted images of three species separately, but here they are in comparison to one another. I think this illustrates well the remarkable variation among bats.

Bats Relative to Size
A male hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) (top) is considerably larger than a female eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) (middle) and a tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). Photographed near the Conasauga River in the Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia.
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4 comments:

  1. slot makinalari3:46 AM

    Greaat! Going to check your other photos. Really cool...

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  2. Stella11:37 AM

    All your pictures are amazing! Wildlife and nature in general are my favourite themes, too.

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  3. Unknown12:39 AM

    It is really a difficult thing that what is the bats color impression in dark night, you think is quite right it can be very hard to get a good impression about their color, you have added her great informational post about bats and very nice image also, Thanks for sharing this post.

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  4. Ostrich Fern7:44 AM

    Wow! Such a wonderful post. Also very wonderful picture.

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