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fossilesque @mander.xyz

4w ago

Bat Drip

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I used to intern at a wildlife sanctuary and I used to stick baby raccoons on me like velcro and walk around while I clean their enclosures and stuff.
- Not exactly the same, but my wife and I are babysitting our daughter's guinea pig, and she needed to clean his pen last night so asked me to hold him.
  He was so gloriously chill. He just sat with me eating a carrot and watching TV.
  
  I have my dad baby sit my piggies when I clean their cage too. The only downside is when we come to collect them, revealing the trove of accumulated chocolate tic-tacs beneath their bum.
  
  I love guinea pigs. They are absolutely chill; capybaras and guinea pigs seem to be the same animal sized in xs and xl
  I had one I used to hold in my arm like a football or a baby. His head would be in the crook of my arm and I'd hold his butt in my hand and he'd drape his back legs over my arm. He would stay like that for hours he was so content
  I don't have any pictures of him handy, but he was adorable. Calico colored with short hair up front and long hair in back. And he was a big boi! He wasn't fat, just grew very large

I worked at a pet store in college. There was a really chill baby king snake there that I’d hang out with when I was working the cash register. He’d loop around my neck and just hang out like a little snake necklace for hours. Scared the shit out of a few customers who thought he was a piece of jewelry until he moved 😅
- Aw man I wish I could've hung out with animals when I worked cash
  
  Too busy serving them instead aye.
  Edit: I realise this can go two ways. I’m implying that the customers are animals. Not that you worked serving up food.
- Jealous! Way better than a lap cat on so many levels...

wow a bat flittered into me in my office hallway today, awkward flight like a moth, weighed practically nothing when it hit my leg. it was hairy and cute with black ears. i brought it outside. then i go on lemmy and see a fricken bat necklace.
- A bat being active during the day and colliding with you is very abnormal behavior. If rabies exists where you are (this includes the UK for bats) see a doctor ASAP. Like, I wouldn’t go to bed without doing it. It’s possible for you to be bitten without feeling it because of how small they are, and disorientation is a sign of rabies in bats.
  It’s totally fixable even if it did have rabies and bite you, you just have to go get a (normal, NOT in the stomach) post-exposure shot.
  
  you're very right. i went and got the first shot. will need 4 total.
- Did it hit any bare skin? Might be a good idea to get shots for rabies. Bat bites and scratches can be so small we don't feel them.
- I agree with the others. Get a shot now. The survivability if rabies is virtually 0 when symptoms show up
  
  Wait? Somebody survived rabies after symptoms show up?!
- bats just look scary up close flying if your not used to it, but yeah they look like moths. source: used to see bats in old friends farm house.

"Bat drip" does not sound like something I want anywhere near my mouth if I'm being honest.

This is how I imagine half this sub spends their nights, the other half are sobbing at a 47 page scientific papers incorrect usage of the word "disambiguation"
- Disambiguate it for us. We don’t know what it means.
  
  It's when you write a diss track to take down the ambiguity

One person's perk is another person's nightmare.

Now... That is the cutest thing i saw today. And this afternoon i learned about mini cows. So that sais a lot.

Imagine working in a gorilla sanctuary.
- or a sperm bank
  
  Show me a single law that does not permit the wearing of a tasteful pearl necklace.
- Tiny gorillas hanging on my neck.

Hello, Covid-24!
- In bat or other animal sanctuaries, all animals are checked and treated by vets, they are not a risk for the workers there.
  Like this Lord of the Night
  
  OH MY GOD IS THAT A BAT SHAPED PACIFIER?! I CANNOT CONTROL MY CUTE AGGRESSION RIGHT NOW!
- Is she eating those?
  
  Eating? No, of course not.
  Look at this as the bat-world’s equivalent of that that Piper Perri meme.
- Can't believe the writers left us hanging for a sequel for so long!

Illegally cute 🥺
- Illegally smol bats?

Holy bat-bling!

Yyyup, that's the smile of a woman who wears bats as necklaces.

That's so adorably batty!

I'm genuinely envious.

+2 for baby bats
-1 for Papyrus

female bats still fly while menstruating
- Estrus in bats - some bloody discharge while in the fertile part of their cycle. Only great apes have menstrual cycles (shedding unused uterine lining at the end of a cycle, NOT fertile when discharging blood).
  
  Wicked just got a whole lot more interesting.
  ^fly ^my ^pretties!
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Since I'm scared of the amount of viruses bats carry, I would be scared shitless. (as a sidenote I'm going to assume these bats are not carrying any viruses)
- They live in a sanctuary. They've been coddled their whole lives.
  
  yeah that's what i thought.

This is just me, but bats give me the creeps so this is a personal nightmare IRL
- Ride that fear. Conquer that fear. Control that fear. Use it to strike terror into your enemies hearts.
  
  Step one: be born into obscene wealth
- yeah I think they're kinda cool from a distance but "what if rats could fucking fly" can't be that fun up close.

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