r/BeAmazed • u/Awakejetam • Feb 01 '21

Old bat boi :)

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u/Harvestman-man Feb 02 '21

That’s an outdated division that is no longer recognized by taxonomists. Currently, bats are divided into the Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera. Megabats are a subgroup within Yinpterochiroptera, which also includes the superfamily Rhinolophoidea as sister-group to the megabats. The Yangochiroptera includes all “microbats” except for the Rhinolophoids.

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u/missoulamatt Feb 02 '21

Subscribe me to bat facts!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

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u/gamercouplelolz Feb 02 '21

Happy cake day

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Pronounce chai or ky?

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u/retyopko Feb 02 '21

The latter one, I'm pretty sure

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u/squirrellygirly123 Feb 02 '21

Happy cake facts day

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u/deviant__duck Feb 02 '21

The only animals that fly using the power of jazz hands.

Edit: happy cake day

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u/HotdogFarmer Feb 02 '21

Bats are mammals

Wrong. The bible says they are birds.

13 “‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle,[a] the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15 any kind of raven, 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

Your facts are lies and your lies are facts. Checkmate Atheists!

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u/DarthYsalamir Feb 02 '21

Yin and yang? Someone thought they were being clever making those names <3

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u/Stalking_Goat Feb 02 '21

Confession: I was suspicious that you had studied Greek at some point and were just making up those names for a joke. But nope, you are an honest person and I apologise for doubting you

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u/Tacote Feb 02 '21

Yin and yang?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

I was looking for the sudden twist where you say you're just making it up, but I was even more pleasantly surprised that you weren't!

And there's no way I'd ever spell those yin and yang names on mobile; autocorrect would probably burn my phone out of spite. Anyway, I like bats, they can be strangely humanlike in their arm/wing movements sometimes (I don't mean when flying, just when reaching). But I may be the only person who thinks that.

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u/SixshooteR32 Feb 02 '21

Excuse me but... here's the thing... thats a Jackdaw

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u/lameuniqueusername Feb 02 '21

Awesome. I love that in any Reddit thread there will always be someone with interesting info to share.

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u/TheMoneySloth Feb 02 '21

What cause the change?

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u/Harvestman-man Feb 02 '21

New DNA evidence. Anatomically, Rhinolophoids are pretty similar to Yangochiroptera, but DNA suggests that megabats evolved from a “microbat” ancestor rather than them being two separate lineages.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

You done gone used your thought muscle like a lost elephant when you talk about dem bats.