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Do you even <3 bats?!?!
Original design by Susan Brand/Cannibal Cubs
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Do you even <3 bats?!?!
Original design by Susan Brand/Cannibal Cubs
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We love bats for so many reasons!! And there's more reasons to love them than we're yet aware of: the world of bats is ripe with discoveries waiting to be made!
Why do you love bats?
- Because they save farmers approximately $23 billion in annual agricultural losses in the United States alone?
- Because just one bat can catch 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour, helping reduce the spread of diseases such as West Nile virus?
- Because they are primary reforesters of tropical clearings, sometimes dropping more than 95% of first ?pioneer plant? seeds required to begin regrowth?
- Because bat-pollinated mangrove trees of SE Asia provide vital flood and erosion control, timber, charcoal, breeding grounds for fisheries and key habitat for a wide variety of wildlife?
- Because without large populations of bats to keep insects in check, pollinate flowers and carry seeds whole ecosystems upon which we ourselves depend could be seriously threatened.
- Because bats disperse seeds for mangoes, peaches, and guavas ? among many more fruits?
- Because the famous night-blooming baobab tree of East African savannahs relies on bats for pollination, provides key wildlife habitat and is one of the world?s richest source s of vitamins, with sales amounting to roughly a billion dollars annually?
Visit our site to learn more reasons for loving bats; share your favorites with your friends and family and wear this shirt with pride!
Educating humans is one of the best way to help bats! <3
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Pictured:
We love bats because durian fruits sell for billions of dollars annually in SE Asia, but every flower must be pollinated by a bat in order to set fruit. This cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) is pollinating durian flowers in Thailand. Cave nectar bats are its primary bat pollinators. These bats traditionally formed large colonies in caves but are in alarming decline in most areas, often overharvested for human consumption or killed during careless limestone extraction. This poses a dirct threat to durian production, as well as to a variety of other important products.
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