From this angle it looks a bit like a tiny camel with wings.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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No way, this looks generated. I'm going to search, brb. edit: Holy shit! They're real. Amazing.
"In no other mammal is everything so entirely subordinated to the organs of voice." That is just hilarious. Imagine if Dracula transformed into this fellow. "HONK HONK HONK!"
I'm always floored by the stuff nature comes up with. The creatures on this planet are so beautiful sometimes, and I don't mean in a aww that's cute way.
How about a hairless ape that walks on two feet, can't fight, no claws, no big teeth, soft and squishy, completely vulnerable but when you put them all together, they're capable of killing all life on the planet.
Yeah but boy are they fuckable.
I also miss seeing headlines like this at the grocery store check out line
He had so many adventures over the years
Is he the one that landed that B52 on the moon?
He grew up ... like everyone else ... had a family and gave birth to ...
Florida man
They can most certainly fight, and fight for longer than any other animal on the planet.
That has got to be one of the most relevant usernames to this conversations ....
Mr. AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
Dude lost the evolutionary lottery.
Said the naked, tailless primate who can't even lick its own butthole... 🙄
that’s insane
We probably look terrifying to it
Why are there two or more bat species that look like they're poorly modeled in a 3D model making program? That doesn't look like something Mother Nature or someone making 3D assets would make a bat look like.
cutie! :* :* :-*
So cartoony.
They look even funnier head on
That is so strange to see. Thanks for sharing!
The nose reminds me of a mushroom.
It's like a bat with a donkey head. 😮
They had to contain it with a straightjacket after it killed the entire platoon that was transporting it!