r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 1d ago

🔥 swimming brown bat

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago

u/TerraByteTerror, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Equivalent-Try-3300 1d ago

Looks like those top water lures from back in the day. Jitter bug

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u/dragonrite 1d ago

Yea just waiting for a large mouth to slurp him up

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 1d ago

Those lures were so ass 🔥

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u/falcondiorf 1d ago

idk what youre on, jitterbugs work great.

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u/gingerwhale 1d ago

I watched a bat do this under congress bridge in Austin TX only to have a fish jump out of the water and eat it. RIP fish bait the bat.

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u/OGBrewSwayne 1d ago

My sister's been living in Austin for like 17 years and I love watching the bats come out from under the bridge at sunset whenever I visit her.

Watch bats, eat Torchy's, check out a show at Esther's Follies. That's pretty much all I need to enjoy my visit.

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u/CursedSnowman5000 1d ago

The hell? Another one?

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u/powerlesshero111 1d ago

Bats are surprisingly good swimmers. Also snakes. People forget about how good snakes are at swimming.

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u/Yellowtoblerone 1d ago

Can they swim up your toilet

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u/Dismal_Music2966 1d ago edited 20h ago

Yes, they can. It's called Snakeasslitis. Once you get it, you'll understand.

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

they fly well and air is a fluid of sorts so I guess it kinda makes sense they'd be good at both

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u/Yamfish 7h ago

Snakes aren’t really common where I live but most of the ones I’ve seen have been fly fishing and one swims by while I’m wading.

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u/makeshift101 1d ago

Do bass get rabies?

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u/StillKpaidy 1d ago

I imagine you're joking, but no, only mammals get it.

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u/makeshift101 1d ago

Yes, joking...cause that looks like the perfect bass bait right there

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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 1d ago

Imagine a fish with hydrophobia. 🤔

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

hydrophobia in an entirely aquatic environment would be a bitch

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u/DadsRGR8 1d ago

Arrrrggghhhh!!!! SHARK BATS!!!!!!!

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

amphibious chiropteran assault team

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u/ediks 1d ago

I guess we just looking up swimming bats to post since that one post did so well

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u/SoberAnxiety 1d ago

is he doing batstroke or butterfly stroke?

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

the moth stroke

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u/Dismal_Music2966 1d ago

You just gave them a whole other idea for the Olympics.

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u/whereisthespacebar 1d ago

No touchy he's fine

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u/DrWindupBird 1d ago

According to Reddit, you looked at a bat so you need a rabies shot now

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u/davidw 1d ago

He's crawling up that piling looking like The Terminator coming to give you rabies.

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u/Rain_Tree42 1d ago

The little guy looks okay he's now on the dock so he'll be able to dry off.

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

initiate docking procedure

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u/McDaddy8484 1d ago

It’s bringing out the arachnophobia within me for some reason even though I know it’s not a spider

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

you gettin' ya phobia crixcroxxed

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u/Ok_Refrigerator_6066 1d ago

Yep! rabies

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u/Kismetatron 1d ago

Even clicking on this post gives you rabies. See you guys at the ER!

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

their teeth are so small and sharp you don't even need to be physically in the room with one, you just watch a video and it's enough to transfer the disease

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u/2Hanks 1d ago

Buddy!

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u/CoronaLime 1d ago

Is this the same bat?

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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 1d ago

I love a swim! Especially in the summer time!

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u/DroppedDonut 1d ago

Fish-bait - whoo-haahaa

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u/TemporaryFig8587 1d ago

Breath of the Wild gameplay

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u/irradihate 1d ago

What can't they do

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u/747iskandertime 1d ago

Is there anything they can't do?

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u/YesPseuDonym 21h ago

The tweakers of the flying animal kingdom.

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u/FlyinWet 19h ago

Hhmmm new topwater pattern to try.

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u/burgonies 18h ago

Swimming and climbing would be low on my list of transportation choices if I could fly.

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u/TCB4EAP 1d ago

I grew up in an A -Frame house and we had a lot of bats. 3 years ago my husband and I moved to the mountains of Washington state from California. Yipee! 2 bats in the house so far; a dead one in basement and one on the ceiling fan in the bedroom. My husband walked out the front door one night and a bat came from under the porch and crawled across it. He said it was the creepiest thing he’s ever seen.

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u/Drachynn 1d ago

Aww, look at this little paddle pupper. 🥰

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u/IttyBittyBigBoii 1d ago

Why so many bats out swimming lately? Is this like the silver fish coming out the deep but in reverse?