With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed — on their walls, display them as collectibles and even set them in jewelry. In recent […]
  • tae glas [siad/iad]@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    no taxidermied bats are ethical to buy, bats don’t do well in captivity so they’re p much all caught from the wild & making the wild populations suffer

    it’s best to admire bats from a distance while they’re still alive, maybe even put up bat nesting boxes for the species that can make use of them!