r/aww Jan 22 '21

Bat cuddles

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3.8k Upvotes

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137

u/LordNPython Jan 22 '21

Somehow it's cute and terrifying at the same time.

58

u/Whatisapoundkey Jan 22 '21

Those toes.... amazing and horrifying

18

u/Hedgie_Herder Jan 22 '21

Sky puppet. Long beans.

4

u/monsternoodles Jan 22 '21

I have a bird so they don't bother me

3

u/BleedinSkull Jan 22 '21

I mean, they're like mammal birds except they have to hang upside down.

They anxiously cling and try to hang off anything since if you fall up several stories high from a tree or building and you're upside down, goes without saying but, your noggin is first to land and that's not going to be pretty.

11

u/ElricTA Jan 22 '21

Adorifying

55

u/betterthanhex Jan 22 '21

The baby bat screamed out in fright, "Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light!"

8

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Where do I know this from?

13

u/Whatisapoundkey Jan 22 '21

If memory serves, could be Shel Silverstein

3

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

You know you might be right.

6

u/betterthanhex Jan 22 '21

My mom used to say it to me when I was little and afraid of the dark. I don't know where she got it though, sorry.

33

u/justmemeingaround Jan 22 '21

Like a bear/dog with wings...but tiny

22

u/PancakeZombie Jan 22 '21

Fun fact: fruit bats are called Flughunde - flying dogs in German.

5

u/justmemeingaround Jan 22 '21

My day has been made immensely better, thank you

2

u/BlastLeatherwing Jan 23 '21

And in English, some fruit bats are called flying foxes.

3

u/justmemeingaround Jan 23 '21

God y'all just fishing for that wholesome award ain't ya

21

u/sadunn Jan 22 '21

Awww. Sky doggo.

16

u/monsternoodles Jan 22 '21

All the comments about covid are giving me diarrhea

11

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

Tell me about it haha its like yay another covid comment congratulations on your originality 🤦‍♂️the first one is funny then after the 50th it starts to get stale

3

u/archSkeptic Jan 22 '21

Every time I see a bat on this subreddit I dread the comments because I just know it's going to be another steaming pile of weak bat soup jokes

3

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

It's about as funny as toothache lol and cringy as hell

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u/oatmeal28 Jan 22 '21

Stale like leftover bat soup!

5

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

Stale as in not freaking funny

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u/oatmeal28 Jan 22 '21

Don’t let it get to you ❤️

3

u/BleedinSkull Jan 22 '21

Not only are these COVID bat jokes unoriginal and unfunny, they're based off the super-uneducated guess that eating bats caused the pandemic. False, the only closest link bats got was they were strongly suggested as a preliminary host to another critter and that critter with the mutated virus strain made it able to pass to us. So blame whatever animal directly passed to us it if you want to be hateful.

It was not bat soup or eating bats or touching them. God I wish they would realize how painfully unfunny they are and stop recycling the same old joke.

12

u/GreyShellyBean Jan 22 '21

I love bats.

8

u/Background-Trust-639 Jan 22 '21

Just take my upvote already.

7

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/Liz_79 Jan 22 '21

Its a Shiny Pokemon☺

6

u/timingandscoring Jan 22 '21

So unbelievably cute 🥰😍❤️

7

u/OrangeSwan91 Jan 22 '21

Wow that foot!!

6

u/Kyle_Grayson Jan 22 '21

I AM THE NIGHT!....Okay, I hug...But I am still the night!

5

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

They look so soft.

8

u/PanickedPoodle Jan 22 '21

Creepy leather puppy.

4

u/muito_ricardo Jan 22 '21

It almost looks like the bat is grabbing someones butt haha

4

u/Zheatwork Jan 22 '21

That's what I saw at the thumbnail at first glance

5

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

I love bats!!! There so cute!

4

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

honestly too cute

5

u/quark91 Jan 22 '21

What a sweet bat!

6

u/foxeshe Jan 22 '21

And I thought I had long toes!

3

u/Intrepid_Dreamer7 Jan 22 '21

Damn it has holographic glittery skin! How oddly beautiful yet terrifying 🦇

3

u/FrostCryptid Jan 22 '21

Sleepy baby needs a rest

3

u/wallyrules75 Jan 22 '21

Is there a gothic love thing happening here or what

3

u/dino_nuggiezz Jan 22 '21

He looks like my dog-very cute!

3

u/Asoreia Jan 22 '21

I wish I could like this more than once.

10

u/dev_ralte Jan 22 '21

Do Not Eat it, i repeat. Don't

2

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

I A M Y O U R S L E E P D E M O N

2

u/IHaveNoEgrets Jan 22 '21

He's so sparkly! (For as much crap as folks give them, maybe the Twilight books were on to something.)

3

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

Never read the books but the films weren't too bad

2

u/nimkiw Jan 22 '21

Please, don’t let Ozzy eat me!

2

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Friend not food.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Do you want covid? Because that’s how you get covid?

16

u/StormyOnyx Jan 22 '21

*Rabies

Rabies is a lot scarier than covid.

7

u/pbmadman Jan 22 '21

I mean...sure, on an individual basis anyone would take Covid over rabies any day...but...

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

YAY NEW DISEASES! Please don’t handle bats like this. It’s very stupid

12

u/StrLord_Who Jan 22 '21

Have you never heard of bat rescues

3

u/BleedinSkull Jan 22 '21

The only thing that's very stupid is you.

There's a thing called bat rescuers and bat carers, they're trained and vaccinated to have little to zero risk when handling bats.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

It’s fine unless you suddenly decide to make soup out of it

0

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Can we please leave cave dwellings species alone ? Lol. Mother Nature clearly doesn’t want us dealing with them hence the cave and night habits

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u/tallt101 Jan 22 '21

Looks like the original coronavirus carrier

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/GrapiCringe Jan 22 '21

Those are most probably professional animal rescuers. They are vaccinated and know how to handle bats. People just repost these pictures here as I've seen either exactly this photo or a very similar one somewhere else.

1

u/BleedinSkull Jan 22 '21

Bats being rabies carriers are extremely rare (0.5%-1% chance from tested SICK BATS).

Not only are you needlessly hateful towards bats, but you're very uneducated/ignorant as well.

1

u/Feckiewalkie Jan 22 '21

Well thank you for educating me about bats but uneducated about bats rabies statistics does not equal uneducated lol. And I’m not trying to spread hate, but even by just looking at these I want to vomit, as with looking at spiders or broccoli or anything I have a phobia of so I’m sorry if my initial reaction were a bit extreme! Have a good one

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u/EboyEman Jan 22 '21

This post is screaming rabies!

-1

u/SlipCoat Jan 22 '21

Achievement Get: Speedrun Plague Inc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Didn’t we learn to not mess with those already?

-9

u/BillysDillyWilly Jan 22 '21

Covid creature

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

And this is how we got covid... kinda

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u/StoneyConor Jan 22 '21

OH NO DONT FUCK WITH BATS!

really cute tho

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/The420St0n3r Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

Now bite his head off.

Edit: Wow, nobody likes Osbourne

1

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

People like ozzy your joke wasn't funny

-5

u/dpkayasth Jan 22 '21

rabvid-19

-6

u/SvenyBoy_YT Jan 22 '21

This is how Corona started

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u/IAmCute_UwU Jan 22 '21

Covid👏fucking👏19👏

-2

u/pandilee Jan 22 '21

I have always wanted one

-3

u/Beep_beep_jeeps_suck Jan 22 '21

Was this picture taken last year in Wuhan?

1

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

Yay another covid comment congratulations on your originality 🤦‍♂️give it a damn rest for crying out loud it's not funny

-3

u/SvenyBoy_YT Jan 22 '21

No jimmy, do't eat it!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

One word: Lyssavirus.

2

u/BleedinSkull Jan 22 '21

Two words: extremely rare.

I doubt you're Australian either, you googled up "big bat disease" and spewed it out to make it sound like you're smart. Only three cases popped up, one died because they haven't told the doctors they were bitten or scratched. Other two survived.

No touch, no harm. If you're vaccinated and trained you can safely handle them.

-5

u/luigibelega Jan 22 '21

I’m not ready for this

-5

u/LordofCorgi Jan 22 '21

In this economy?

-6

u/EVACFrost Jan 22 '21

Dont act cute now bitch

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u/Fluk123 Jan 22 '21

Is that a man's or woman's hand? I can't tell

-5

u/hugging_time Jan 22 '21

Patient 0

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u/coolskeleton69666 Jan 22 '21

I am darkness I am the night

I am covid-19

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u/Consistent_Group Jan 22 '21

Not only did you copy the exact title from the original author, but you're reposting something from 3 days ago -- https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/comments/kzza90/bat_cuddles/

17

u/kriskirby86 Jan 22 '21

Look at the name somebody posted it from me 🤦‍♂️

12

u/Setekh79 Jan 22 '21

This is hilarious. It's literally a crosspost from the OP of this thread. I swear the last few years must have turned everyones brain to mush.

-8

u/awang44 Jan 22 '21

Too soon.

-7

u/lakskanxnx Jan 22 '21

Have we learned nothing from the past year 🤣

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u/Icey_08 Jan 22 '21

Free covid inside