Large, golden-eyed fruit bats or flying foxes with a cap or crown of golden-colored hair that starts in a v shape between their eyes and continues to the nape of their neck. Meet the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox ( Acerodon jubatus) The large bats are, however, the largest bats in the world and can certainly look impressive when flying overhead or stretching from a nap in a fruit tree. This is the human-sized bat in the photo, though it is far from human-sized. The giant golden fruit bat or giant golden flying fox is a massive and beautiful bat with an enormous wingspan compared to all of the other types of bats in the world. ©I Wayan Suarnaya/iStock via Getty Images There is some truth to the photo because that is a real bat, and it is enormous, just not human-sized. It’s not fun being tricked, but the internet is certainly filled with them. The photo of a person standing near a bat that appears to be his size is also standing behind the bat, also. Being close to the bat makes it appear much larger than it really is and also makes everything behind it look much smaller than it is. This is merely an angle trick from the photographer called forced perspective photography. There is no such thing as a human-sized bat. Just to catch you up to speed, below is a TikTok clip with some of the original ♬ Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) – Kenji Ueda Here we are again, discussing that bat in the Philippines that was first seen on Reddit in 2018. The Human-Sized Bat… AgainĮvery year since 2018, a human-sized bat has become an internet sensation with massive shares and newcomers going crazy over it. Now, let’s talk about that human-sized bat in the Philippines. We will talk about how to help bats and even get them to choose your area as their next mosquito exterminating job later.

Pesticides, essential oils, and mosquito trucks are not even close to the correct answer providing safe habitats for swallows and bats and eradicating loose, damp soil and shallow standing puddles IS the right answer.

So many suburban and urban areas have taken away all of the bats’ natural homes that we have set ourselves up for a very serious mosquito issue. Even if you aren’t especially fond of the small pest control specialists, they do a fantastic job when we let them. There would be so many mosquitos that the human species would be completely wiped out. Without bats, there would be trillions more mosquitos in the world at any given moment. Mosquitos are an insect that everyone universally can agree is the very worst part of warm nights. The moths are also delicious if you are a small but mighty bat. Those moths love streetlights, porch lights, flames, and pretty much any other type of light available. As they say, like a moth is drawn to a flame. They are going where the insect buffet is in the light. The tiny ominous creatures of the night aren’t swarming around streetlights to terrify you and your friends. Those crazy flyers are using echolocation to find their way around, and they aren’t flying erratically they are chasing insects. These are the bats you see flying radically around the night sky, diving like acrobatic jets around streetlights. Overall, there are two different types of bats, microbats and megabats. But what are bats?īats are small to medium-sized furred mammals with wings that belong to the order Chiroptera. Anything with a creepy, ghastly, scary, or spooky vibe generally has at least a few bats along for the ride. Bats have appeared in almost every vampire movie made and certainly show up on spooky Halloween nights. They are amazing creatures who look like a bird and small mammals combined in a Frankenstein-type way. What We Know About Batsįor centuries, humans have feared bats, though it is not the fault of the bats who are merely doing what bats do.īats fill our night skies with high-pitched chirps and eat our mosquito population when we allow. More importantly, let’s find out if there is any truth to the human-sized bats that have taken the internet by storm. Let’s delve into what bats are and if we should fear them. They do carry some diseases, but humans carry many more, and here we are walking around thinking all creatures love or fear us. Much is known about the flying mammals that almost everyone seems to fear. Not just any bats, but human-sized bats! These bats have become a viral success, and now everyone is dying to know if the giant bats are real or hoax. Just in time for Halloween, we are here to talk about bats.

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