Do you know what’s not a book?
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A BAT
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First things first is to check the gonads, which confirmed the bat is a boy. Male bat genitalia look like, and we quote, ‘an albino hedgehog’.
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We thought the bat was a type of pipistrelle, and after examining the ratio of forearm to 5th finger, and wing venation, it turns out to be a Nathusius' pipistrelle.pic.twitter.com/AhPtPVIGec
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This is very cool, as the species has only recently started migrating to Britain. They’ve previously travelled from the Baltic to settle in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium or France.pic.twitter.com/hkNcq2ujmT
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We've named the bat MERLin (...). He is helping a current project capturing and ringing Nathusius' pipistrelles, so we can learn more about their migratory habits.
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Bat populations suffered catastrophic losses up until 1981, but are now heavily protected. Their main enemies are cats, habitat destruction and diminishing food supply of bugs. Find out how can you help bats
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The latest update on Merlin is that: ‘it took him ages to get the hang of self feeding but there’s no stopping him now so he’s put on rather a lot of weight and needs a bit more flying practice before we can release him.
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Thanks for listening to our bat story! If you want it in a format that isn't about fifty difficult-to-read tweets, we put it in a blog too:https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2019/02/found-live-bat-archive/ …
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Batman wouldn't be nearly as intimidating as he is if people realized how cute bats really are.
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