Which one has dorsal envy? Is it Burmeister's, with its tiny fin that has nodules (bumps)? Or is it the male spectacled porpoise, with that big ol' fin on its back?
Have you ever wanted to spend the day with a blanket wrapped around your lazy bones?
There's no escape from jerks when you're held captive in a tub.
The plecos are a wide variety of catfish that normally live in South American rivers and parts of Central America. You can commonly see them sucking on things in aquariums too.
The third Saturday of every February is World Pangolin Day. This mammal that looks like a pinecone is one of the most trafficked animals in the world. People consider its meat to be a delicacy and its scales to be a cure-all medicine. The truth is, the scales all over a pangolin's body are nothing more than keratinβthe same stuff that fingernails are made from.
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Alligator gars are among the largest and "oldest" fishes in North America. Their fossil record goes back 100 million years!
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Bettas, or Siamese fighting fish, are kept in small jars until they're sold at pet stores. Most people keep them in tiny bowls or the same cups they were bought in. They're naturally found in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam and in the
Not only is today Groundhog Day and Super Bowl Sunday, itβs also World Wetlands Day. Hereβs a comic about 2 animals that use wetlands at opposite ends of their lifecycles. Gray whales feed in an odd way. They stick their ...
Jan 31
Gray whales feed in an odd way. They stick their heads in the muck on the bottom of the sea floor and slurp, using their baleen to filter out mud and eat crustaceans that live on the bottom. They almost always do this while feeding on their right side, which can cause blindness in that eye as the whales get old. Remember way back in December when I made a few ...
Jan 30
Remember way back in December when I made a few comics about the mysterious beaked whales and called it #decembeakedwhale ? Well, I recently had an opportunity to talk about those enigmas of the deep on the latest @whaletalesorg podcast. Have a listen!
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This octopus is a weirdo, even for octopuses. It's got a swim bladder, sort of. Its arms aren't all the same length! It's been known to have MILLIONS of eggs, which hatch somewhere inside the momma's body. And it's shaped like a football (in a very non-football way). Since they're pelagic (live in the open ocean), the mothers have no place to stick their offspring, so they just wear the eggs until they hatch.
For those of you who aren't aware, January 21 is a major holiday. It's Squirrel Appreciation Day! This old comic throws it way back about 65 million...
Jan 19
This old comic throws it way back about 65 million years ago to the end of the Cretaceous period. π10 POINTS TO ANYBODY WHO CAN NAME ALL THE DINOSAURS IN THE COMICπ
At 0.2mm, Angustopila dominikae is the world's smallest snail. In fact, these critters from Southern China are the world's smallest land mollusks as well. They were discovered in a soil sample in some limestone cliffs in Guangxi, China. My Threadless.com shop has 50% off all premium ...
Jan 11
My Threadless.com shop has 50% off all premium teesβthatβs an amazing deal, by the way. I just found out about this beauty of a snake the ...
Jan 10
I just found out about this beauty of a snake the other day, and immediately wanted to draw itβso here it is.
If you donβt follow @mbari_news you should. Theyβre the Monterrey Bay Aquarium researchers and they introduced me to the tiny but immensely important animals called larvaceans. Time marches on like a quick breeze. With the new ...
Jan 7
Time marches on like a quick breeze. With the new year comes a wonderful holiday β itβs January 7, aka, #NationalPassGasDay π¨ Happy New Year from Pole to Pole (as in the baby ...
Jan 1
Happy New Year from Pole to Pole (as in the baby seal in the Arctic celebrating a fortuitous booping from a narwhal β to a celebrating hooded seal in the Antarctic). Boop someone you love with a happy new year!
Let's seal off the decade with a seally joke, shall we?
As we continue to #sealoffthedecade β here's a classic meeting that I'm sure happens more often than not. Follow @underdonecomics as I #SealOffTheDecade ...
Dec 27
Follow @underdonecomics as I #SealOffTheDecade with lots of seal-related comics! Does your grandmother make a special holiday meal?...
Dec 25
Does your grandmother make a special holiday meal? Is it any good? Share in the comments! What was the most surprising gift youβve ever ...
Dec 24
What was the most surprising gift youβve ever gotten? Iβm thinking we should seal up the decade with ...
Dec 22
Iβm thinking we should seal up the decade with some seal comics. To get started, letβs look back at an old favorite. Itβs the prequel to the whale fall comic I posted from last week.
Could this be Randolph the Ultraviolet-Nosed Reindeer? No, because some polar creatures (like the arctic fox, seals, polar bears), reindeer can see light on that end of the spectrum.
I wasn't exactly sure how to write the caption for this, because beaked whales are soooo weird. So I had my friend Ben, @a_fools_experiment & @lostworldofbayside, who's a paleontologist, specializing in whale natural history write it for me. Follow him if you're not already.
This story features a beaked whale, so it qualifies for #decembeakedwhale Hakuna matata! The male strap-toothed beaked whale...
Dec 11
Hakuna matata! The male strap-toothed beaked whale has warthog-like bottom teeth that grow out, up and back over the mouth the mouth. They'll eventually cross over each other, greatly limiting the ability to open the jaws. Since beaked whales are so elusive, nobody's seen how they feedβbut slurping up squid seems to be the consensus (and plastic trash, of course). It's also a mystery about how how the males feed with their lockjaw. They most likely use their tusks for fighting. Bottlenose whales are members of the beaked whale ...
Dec 5
Bottlenose whales are members of the beaked whale group. They can grow to 32feet (9.8m). What's amazing about them is that jelly-filled, watermelon-sized melon on the males' forehead. Females have some jelly in their heads too, but not as much as males. These bulbs are probably used for communication and echolocation.
Beaked whales are hard to study because they're so rare. They seem to spend their lives in the open ocean, diving for hours. Since they don't have teeth (except for the males' "tusks"βbut more on that in a sec), they slurp up their prey through their snouts, or "beaks." The male ginkgo-toothed beaked whale has two ginkgo-shaped teeth that just barely stick out of its lower jaw. From the handful of specimens that've been found, they're not as scratched up as other beaked whale males. So it's thought they DON'T use their ginkgo teeth for fighting each other as much as other whales. But who really knows, really?
Thank goodness DinovemBird is finished. I was getting sick of birds. Letβs take a closer look at New Zealandβs kea ...
Nov 27
Letβs take a closer look at New Zealandβs kea bird. There are all kinds of stores and videos about how curious and downright cheeky they are (as an American Iβm not sure I grasp the meaning of the word cheeky, but Iβm also not sure how else to describe this parrotβs behavior. Can anybody give me some synonyms for cheeky in the comments?) Keep these comics aloft by visiting www.UnderdoneComics.com/shop Kakapos and keas are amazingly intelligent parrots...
Nov 26
Kakapos and keas are amazingly intelligent parrots that are barely hanging on to existence in New Zealand. The kakapo, or owl parrot, is a flightless, solitary tree climber (it uses its strong beak to help get up trees) that has a intensely managed population on a couple islands in NZ. They are the longest living birds, having been recorded to live for 9 decades (with an average lifespan of 60 years). The reason for their near extinction is introduced mammals preying on them, eating their prey and taking over their habitat. Typical human BS.
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From my rookie year, in November, 2016: This endangered 4 foot (1.3m) tall bird likes to ...
Nov 21
This endangered 4 foot (1.3m) tall bird likes to eat snakes, including venomous ones, like adders and cobras. Theyβll eat other small animals as well by using their unique "bash 'em into submission" style of hunting, using those weird, long slender legs of theirs. So in other words, don't bring them in a butcher shop. Or they'll try to stomp all the snakes. β»οΈ itβs America Recycles Day! So letβs ...
Nov 15
β»οΈ itβs America Recycles Day! So letβs recycle an old comic about recycling. Is that too meta? Black skimmers are one of my all-time favorite ...
Nov 14
Black skimmers are one of my all-time favorite birdies. When I lived in southern California they would come to the coast during the summers. I'd find them especially at @bolsachicacon. You can hear them zip along the water, kind of like they're cutting long lines of fabric, until they snatch a fish.
November 9 is Carl Sagan Day. Let's celebrate by looking back at my favorite avian astrophysicist. Do you think Carl ever put a colander on his head and just figured it all out?
Buttet, anyone?
Philippine eagles are a critically endangered bird. They're the apex predators of their mountain homes in the Philippines. Sadly, thanks to deforestation, there's not much home for them left.
Here's a creepy tale for this creepy time of year:
H A P P Y Pallid bats are biggish for bats and range from ...
Oct 29
Pallid bats are biggish for bats and range from Western Canada to Central Mexico.
What would you rather have? Knobs or a giant sail?
Both of these small cetaceans live around the southern part of South America. The spectacled swims mainly around the southeast part, making its way over to Australia, while the Burmeister's sticks mainly to the continental shelf on both sides.
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Meet the crab that does just that. An international team of scientists lead by the Smithsonian discovered 3 new species of the little-known blanket hermit crab. It turns out that when these crustaceans are young, a certain kind of sea anemone attaches itself to the crab's rear end and grows with it. In an amazing example of a snuggly symbiotic relationship, the crabs evolved special legs that raise and lower the anemone, so it can be just like a scared kid hiding in their blanket at night (I have a lot of experience with that).
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We all know that dolphins are really smart. So what happens when really smart things are cooped up in a small place, when they've evolved over millions of years to swim free in open water? They go crazy and bully each other with bites and other kinds of aggression.
Free or not, animals aren't always nice to each other, but just imagine being stuck in a prison together, with no escape.
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One of the most interesting things about them is the bristlenose pleco's mating behavior. Males seduce females into crevices in rocks, to show off the clutches of eggs or fry that's currently in their care. But what if they don't have any kids yet? Well, that's what biologists believe is where those bristles come in.
What do you think? Will she believe him? I mean, I sport a beard to look like I have a healthy sea anemone colony sticking out of my face. I think I read that ladies like that in @gq Magazine or @maximmag Β―\_(γ)_/Β― -----
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As you would imagine, the demand for pangolin pseudo-medicine increases, the pangolin population decreases. Sadly, these animals have a very stressful time in captivity, so breeding them for reproduction in the wild seems to be nearly impossible.
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It takes a long time for alligator gars to reach sexual maturity (about 10 years for female and about half that time for males). π10 points for anybody who uses garrulous in a sentence (correctly). π₯πMany more points if you become a patron or buy something on the shop. (link in bio). #valentinesday #valentine #gar #garfish #fish #fishing #river #freshwater #pun #punny #outdoors #nature #science #comic #webcomic #comics #cartoon #fishy #endangeredspecies #aquarium #garfield #love #relationshipgoals #greetingcards #bigfish
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New Zealand giraffe weevils have some crazy sexual dimorphismβmales can be as long as 90 mm, and females are 50 mmβabout half of each length is in the critter's snout!
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(Link in bio!) Plastic bags enter the ocean from all over the world. Many species of marine animals confuse it for foodβeat it and are killed.
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Chao Phraya river in Thailand, where they're listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN. This, as you'd expect, is due to habitat loss and pollution.
When you see them being sold in pet stores in tiny cups, try to remember that these fish are curious and need room to hide and explore in order to be healthy. They're pretty smart too and are able to recognize their owners.
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Salmon and eels pretty much live opposite lives. Salmon hatch in lakes and their fry flow downstream in rivers into the ocean, where they live for a few years, then return to where they were born in order to spawn. The journey seems to be quite difficult.
The American Eel, on the other hand, is born at sea, makes its way to freshwater where it lives for a number of years. Once they're ready to spawn, they'll travel back to sea.
The lifecycle of eels had eluded scientists for thousands of years. It appears salmon do not know much about it either.
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Apparently orca whales find this feeding method disturbing. But they still enjoy dining on the baby grays.
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If you don't appreciate squirrels(and I know you're out there) consider this: when the critters forget where they bury seeds and nits, they're actually planting new trees and plants.
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Curious about the veggie eating shark? Hereβs the info on it:
Thanks to a scientist from University of California Irvine (where I once took a classβand I believe all the paths are named after places in The Lord of the Rings), we now know that not every shark is nothing but a meat-loving carnivore. It turns out that bonnethead (relatives of the hammerhead) sometimes chomp on seagrass.
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These gentle giants are dwindling in numbers, even though they (used to) help keep dangerous rattler numbers in check. Habitat loss due to human expansion and hunting are the main reasons for their demise.
If you're not satisfied with my crummy rendition and would like to see a photo of what one really looks like, check out @oriannesociety βthey're working hard to save these serpents (and you can help them).
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Imagine living in a house made of your own snot. Sounds amazing, right? Well imagine that your snothouse cleans the ocean as it floats along in the currents. Wow!
Well, that's what tiny larvacean homes do.
The larvacean, which is a kind of free swimming neotenous tunicate (sea pork!) lives inside its mucus home and eats the plankton that the slime ball filters to it.
Once the house is too full of material, itβs dumped, sinking to the bottom of the sea and a new one is secreted.
This is an amazingly effective way to bring carbon-based materials from the middle of the ocean down to the sea floor.
In other words, these balls of loogies fight against global warming.
Effectively decluttering the ocean like a bunch of Marie Kondos.
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Humpbacks always blame it on the bubble nets. And why not? They swim in circles under a school of fish while blowing bubbles (out of their blowholes, not their butts) to force their prey upward. Then they gorge.
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Bowhead whales are the longest living mammalsβthey can swim around the Arctic for more than 200 years! They're big filter feeders, measuring around 50-60 feet (15-18.5 m) long. So yeah, when they pee, I'm sure a lot of marine life wonder if there's a heatwave.
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Elephant seals, which are by far the largest pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) spend more than half of the year in the ocean. They can dive up to 5,800 feet deep and hold their breath for up to 2 hours. They migrate thousands of miles and return twice a year to their colonies to molt or find a mate. During their time onshore, the enormous males constantly fight with one another over mates and space.
It's unknown whether or not the 2 species (norther and southern elephant seals) enjoy having satellite tags stuck on their backs.
Visit elephantseal.org to learn more about these behemoths and to hear their elegant song.
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The grandma orca in the comic apparently loves to serve up a festive ribbon seal.
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When raising pups, ribbon seals like to live on pack ice. Since they float along in the north Pacific, they have few land predators to worry about, so they've been known to leave their babies for extended periods of time while doing some deep dives.
Down in the ocean, however, it's a different story. These pinnipeds are hunted by big sharks and orcas. Speaking of orcas, don't you think it'd be a nice gift to have a smartly dressed ribbon seal from grandma for the Christmas meal?
Grandmothers are the leaders of orca pods, since they're the oldest, they remember where the best food is and pass that knowledge down to their kids.
Those are some diabolical ocean predators, I tell's ya!
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Think the polar bear considers that seal to be a Christmas present or more of a "One in a million chance" pain in the ass?
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Orcas are brilliant predators in the sea. These massive creatures figure out all kinds of ways to cooperate in order to get their next meal. They'll even calculate the best times to swim up shallow channels in order to get seal pups along the shoreline. Sometimes, though, these pups have smart mommas.
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Scientists think they've evolved this ability (rather quickly, too, reindeer have only been roaming the top of the world for about 10,000 years) so they can see things like white fur, urine and lichen, which absorb UV light, in high contrast against bright highly UV-reflective snow. Our eyeballs protect themselves from harmful UV rays by creating snow blindness.
And we also need to protect ourselves from noticing our own pee and poo thatβs all over everything!
What's a disgusting thing that's happened to you? I'll share one in the comments if you do.
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Here's what he has to say:
Imagine possessing a biological sonar that could see the skull in your friends head...
I canβt, because we are Apes... Our ancestors decided to climb out of the trees millions of years ago in the heartland of continental Africa. As apes, we have 5 basic senses: we can hear, see, taste, touch and feel. But IMAGINE if we had the equivalent of a biological sonar (more powerful than any known military sonar) that we could hunt with. You could see in absolute darknessβ¦ You could find your prey hidden completely in the sandβ¦ You could even see an unborn human fetus developing in the womb... This is not science fiction. This biological sonar (echolocation) is possessed by an incredibly successful group of animals; the toothed whales.
Whales are weirdβ¦ undoubtedly the strangest of ALL whales are the beaked whales. Can you imagine holding your breath for over 2 hours, whilst diving more than a kilometer below the surface of the water, hunting in the pitch black? Itβs a world we are yet to properly understand, but beaked whales not only make sense of this world; they thrive in it. (Continued in comments)
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As you can see, in the end, no matter how big and awesome you think you are, we're all just worm food. Unless you get cremated.
Hereβs an interesting discussion topic: after you die, if you could be food for any animal, what would you want it to be?
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Contrary to the comic, though, whales communicated by making squeaks and whistles through their noses, so I'm sure there actually IS a lot of mansplaining, lockjaw or not.
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If you're wondering about the part about the tummy:
Whenever I read news about plastic being in the chambers of the stomach of beached whales that I am reminded that whales evolved from hooved mammals. So their digestive systems are a lot like cows (hence the fluttering of stomachs). Don't forget to draw your own Beaked whales and use the hashtag #decembeakedwhale βwe'll see where this goes!
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How do you feel about #DecemBeakedWhale Month?
Use that hashtag and at the end of the month I'll share the top ten beaked whale illustrations. It'll be a fun way to end the year.
Not much is known about Cuvier's beaked whales, other than they can hold their breath for a really long time and take on some serious pressure.
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The kea is the world's only alpine parrot. They're known as the "Clown of the Mountains." And like all clowns, people are both annoyed and entertained by them. For a very long time, it was rumored to attack sheep. The jury was out from the 1860s until 1992, when someone recorded a nighttime attack. Apparently, keas enjoy tearing the back of wooly sheep to slurp on some succulent fat during the lean winter months. They've gotta use that beak for something!
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Well just imagine how brood parasites feel once they realize they're different than their parents!
Scientists haven't discovered for sure whether or not any dinosaurs were brood parasites (sneaking their eggs into other species' nests so the parasite doesn't have to raise their own young) yet. I for one, hope they do, and I hope they find a ridiculous combination, like a giant sauropod parasite to a small host, like the Fruitadens in this comic.
The classic case of this, of course, is the cuckoo bird. Cuckoos will distract smaller nesting birds, like warblers, to leave their home and then drop in an egg. They're so well adapted for this that their striped tank top shirts even mimic the chest of sparrowhawks (a predator that most birds stay away from), thus making it easier for unbothered egg laying.
The larger cuckoo chick usually battles its smaller roommate and pushes it out of the nest where it'll plummet to its death. Adoptive parents keep on feeding their enormous chicks until the young cuckoo leaves to start the cycle over.
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An estimated 200-300 thousand birds are killed each year by wind turbines. So, naturally, once Theropod dinosaurs (which contain the ancestors of birds) are cloned, what's to stop them from getting decapitated by the big windmills?
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Did you know that plastic floating around in the ocean smells like food to birds? As krill eat algae, they give off the same smell that plastic gives off as it breaks apart in the ocean. When a bird eats plastic it feels like it's full, which is a risk for starvation. What's even more risky, is bits of plastic are stored in their crops, which is then regurgitated into their chicks' mouths.
It's estimated that 90% of seabirds eat plastic annually, and that number will be at 100% in the near future.
Even though so much of this waste is produced by industry that's completely out of many of our handsβwhat's in our hands is what we can do for ourselves. Cut out single use plastics whenever possible. And try to get plastic bags and other unnecessary junk out of our lives.
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Stats in the comic are from the North American Breeding Bird Survey.
According to @cornellbirds there are lots of folk names for these guys, like:
scissor-bill, shearwater, seadog, flood gull, stormgull, razorbill, and cutwater. Can you think of any? I'll start with a suggestionβthe underbiter bird.
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People used to think that vultures' heads are bald because it prevents feathers from slopping up bacteria, blood, poop or whatever else, after a trip into another creature's orifice. But researchers are now thinking that the bald heads are used more as a thermoregulator. When it's hot, they will stretch out their beautiful nude, wrinkly necks and when it's cold, they scrunch up their scraggly-feathered bodies.
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Along with the harpie and Stellers , they're the biggest eagles in the world.
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HANG ON!βοΈπ€The monkey says that the eagle eats lemursβbut it's referring to the Philippine flying lemur, or colugo, which isn't a lemur, but a colugo.
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Back in the day, French ocean explorer Jaques Cousteau and his outrageous team swam the clear Waters of Sabah, Malaysia, underneath the island of Borneo. In a submerged cave, they found a bunch of sea turtle skeletons, both old and new. At the time, Cousteau figured it was a place where turtles gathered to die, kind of like elephants.
Turtles don't do that, though. So people thought the turtles might have just explored the caves, got lost and wound up drowning. But sea turtles are such great navigatorsβ nobody's really sure why this is the turtle Bermuda triangle.
What's your guess?
Well whatever the reason is, I hope your Halloween adventures don't end with you being a bunch of bones laying around in a cave.
Happy Halloween!
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H A L L O W E E N
Well the first isn't a very happy comic, but I hope you enjoy your halloween tomorrow nonetheless! And don't eat shark fin soup!
Look for a morbid but NEW Halloween comic tomorrow!
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To find food, they use their giant ears to listen for critters creeping on the ground.
Sadly, noise pollution is hurting their ability to hunt.
What's your favorite kind of bat?
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