I love how y'all consistently structure the "cool animal facts" in these videos using a hypothesis-evidence-rebuttal-better-hypothesis dialog, rather than just saying, "bulldog bats are afraid of the moon" or even jumping straight to, "the best hunting is when the fish are attracted to artificial lights." It's such a cool way of getting your audience to engage and showing how scientists think and how our understanding of these bizarre beasts has evolved! 🦇
It's not uncommon for an animal to have an additional animal in its name for descriptiveness (like an elephant seal or a bee hummingbird), but the bulldog bat is weirdly a bat named after a dog named after a bull, for a total of 3 animal names in its common name. I wonder if there's an animal with 4 animal names...
I’ve got a little list on my phone: Hawk Moth Wolf Spider Ant Lion Horse Fly Dragon Fly Zebra Tiger Mosquito Mole Cricket Camel Spider Giraffe Weevil Fish crow Spider cricket Tarantula hawk (which is a wasp)
This is even funnier if you know that (fruit) bats will 💯get sloshed off of fermented fruit (like, literally, they're definitely drunk) but will proceed to fly just fine.
This video is incredible! I never knew bats could learn to fish-what a fascinating adaptation! The footage is amazing, and the storytelling really kept me engaged. It’s inspiring to see how animals can adapt and thrive in their environments. Great job on showcasing this unique behavior
I can’t believe bats can learn to fish! This is such a unique behavior to showcase. The way you presented the information made it easy to understand and very engaging. Fantastic job-I’ll be sharing this with my friends
Wow, this video blew my mind! I never thought I’d see bats fishing. The way you captured their techniques was impressive. It really makes you appreciate the wonders of nature and animal intelligence
Wow, this video blew my mind! I never thought I’d see bats fishing. The way you captured their techniques was impressive. It really makes you appreciate the wonders of nature and animal intelligence
I can’t believe bats can learn to fish! This is such a unique behavior to showcase. The way you presented the information made it easy to understand and very engaging. Fantastic job-I’ll be sharing this with my friends
Dragging their feet through the water where there is not any fish currently could be used to attract future fish to that spot. They could be using their feet as a lure in those instances. It probably works. Honestly fish are high in protein and if they have been fishing in these areas for hundreds to several thousands of years. They are going to keep doing it. Good for them
The way the greater bulldog bat utilizes its large feet to catch fish in the darkness is really impressive. It’s a perfect combination of echolocation and hunting skill
The greater bulldog bat is one of the very few mammals indigenous to my locale, the Virgin Islands. (If a species is a mammal and doesn’t fly, it’s invasive here.)
The most jarring thing I got out of that was that they’re that loud and we can’t hear them 🤯 it’s all very cool and I know we can’t hear a lot of things among all the things we interact with every day that we can’t sense but to know it’s LOUD that’s just wild
If youre fortunate enough to live were there are many bats at night when they fly nearby you can hear the noises they make it sound like clicking to me, but my driveway goes through the woods and the bats fly up and down it all summer, they might only be 3 or 4 feet from your head if you're walking down it at night because of the overhead branches. I assume they like hunting there because the bugs from either side of the driveway gather in the open space provided by it.
@@franklyfrustrating that’s really cool! I think the only bats I’ve seen irl were in Austin Tx, no idea if they’re in the part I used to live in, but it was neat :)
2:46 I can explain how underwater predators can tell what’s around them with out looking. When something moves in the water or touches it, the object sends waves throughout the water. These waves hit animals which turn into signals for their brain or system to read, thus alerts whatever living thing is in the water and to go away from it or not
There are bats that specialise in eating frogs, and their targets have developed techniques of stopping their croaking when they hear the bats echolocating. Both the bats and frogs have developed even more complicated behaviour to manage the problem.
Thank you! It is so cool that you get to see these bats where you live! The earrings are designed by Monica Knighton who also designed our snail kite/island apple snail pin a couple years ago! You can find her here! monicalknighton.com/ -Sarah
Oh my goodness, I love _everything_ about these li'l guys! I mean, to be fair that's generally true of the subjects of at least most bizarre beasts episodes, but watching this episode I was like,,, actively saying "oh wow!" and clapping along in (admittedly autistic happy-stim) delight IRL as I watched; every fact about them is simply a joy. That last fact about how obscenely loud they are is amazing, I'm still sitting with jaw slighly agape as I write this; it put me in the mind of the Blackadder Goes Forth quote, "One question, Baldrick: How did you get so much custard out of such a small cat?" (iykyk)
Our team has shown that the Greater Bulldog Bat drops down the equivalent of a hydrophone down and uses SONAR to ping underwater and find available targets.
We went on a naturalist cruise on the Amazon a few years ago. While we were on the water at dusk hundreds of bats were fishing all around us. They flew fast enough to keep up with our boats and swished past us, picking off tiny fish from the water.
How do you talk about bat feet without talking about their feet pointing the wrong friggin direction!? Due to their hips being so bizarrely splayed out so their knees bend the 'wrong' way.
Something else that may be at play here is changes in bug and fish activity with the lunar cycle - it's more documented in sea-going species I guess but there ARE organisms that rely on the phase of the moon for big events like mating and spawning. If the bugs are more plentiful on a DARK night (predator avoidance) - then some predators are going to adapt and favor the darker nights. The artificial light - I'm assuming it attracts fish because the fish eat the bugs too, right? So that could be yet another layer of cause and effect.
Pumpkin Toadlet jumps illicit soooooo many emotions (aww pity, lol hilarity, he-he mockery) and wonder (Aren't toads supposed to be good at that? Did it just die mid-air mid-jump? Is it still alive?). Thank you for ALL the feels, Bizarre Beasts 👏🙏💖
Once i did try to make a conversation with my friends about the Pumpkin toad video It didn't go very well but it was funny to watch the jumping fails again jeje
The fact that means that have a call too high-pitched for us to hear does not mean it’s safe for you to be around them for very long. Sounds you can’t hear it can still damage your hearing.
Depends on the species, but most bats don’t do well on the ground. It could have been sick, injured, or a young bat that was separated from the mother. Or if it was a fruit bat, it could simply be drunk! Fermented fruit will do that
@@averycheesypotato Awww no, please don't tell me I didn't save a helpless animal, it was big-ish, smaller than a fruit bat bigger than regular bats, I'm guessing it was a fruitbat young. It didn't look unhealthy or dying, it just hopped, and grabbed a tree trunk, it was strong enough so I left it.... I should've checked again.
Get the new pumpkin toadlet hat here! complexly.store/products/pumpkin-toadlet-embroidered-beanie
You really got me with that clip. XD I will never stop cracking up at how silly that little guy's jump is.
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The echolocation being good enough to detect ripples in water is mind blowing
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Isn't nature amazing?
I love how y'all consistently structure the "cool animal facts" in these videos using a hypothesis-evidence-rebuttal-better-hypothesis dialog, rather than just saying, "bulldog bats are afraid of the moon" or even jumping straight to, "the best hunting is when the fish are attracted to artificial lights." It's such a cool way of getting your audience to engage and showing how scientists think and how our understanding of these bizarre beasts has evolved! 🦇
“We don’t talk about bat feet enough. We usually talk about their wings.”
Hey, sometimes we talk about their ears too.
And also their faces and echolocation 🦇
It's not uncommon for an animal to have an additional animal in its name for descriptiveness (like an elephant seal or a bee hummingbird), but the bulldog bat is weirdly a bat named after a dog named after a bull, for a total of 3 animal names in its common name. I wonder if there's an animal with 4 animal names...
Well... we could use fisher man bull dog bat. So... that'd be 5 on my count 😁
Boselaphus Tragocamelus - meaning "Ox Deer Goat Camel" also it's none if those things, it's an Antelope
There are the wasp mantidflies, which are neither wasps, mantids nor flies.
I’ve got a little list on my phone:
Hawk Moth
Wolf Spider
Ant Lion
Horse Fly
Dragon Fly
Zebra
Tiger Mosquito
Mole Cricket
Camel Spider
Giraffe Weevil
Fish crow
Spider cricket
Tarantula hawk (which is a wasp)
@@AnkhAnanku Why is zebra on the list?
Someone : **catch a fish with his hands**
This bat : hold my beer
This is even funnier if you know that (fruit) bats will 💯get sloshed off of fermented fruit (like, literally, they're definitely drunk) but will proceed to fly just fine.
Because the bat is hunts with its feet, does it even need to hand off its beer?
@@curiousfirely Because it flaps its hands to fly
some birds tried to evolve into pollinator insects ... some bats tried to evolve into fish eagles
Some bats are pollinators too
Now we just need an insect that can echolocate and the circle will be complete
@@LimeyLassen Noctuid moths (Noctuidae)
This video is incredible! I never knew bats could learn to fish-what a fascinating adaptation! The footage is amazing, and the storytelling really kept me engaged. It’s inspiring to see how animals can adapt and thrive in their environments. Great job on showcasing this unique behavior
Heh, footage
I can’t believe bats can learn to fish! This is such a unique behavior to showcase. The way you presented the information made it easy to understand and very engaging. Fantastic job-I’ll be sharing this with my friends
Wow, this video blew my mind! I never thought I’d see bats fishing. The way you captured their techniques was impressive. It really makes you appreciate the wonders of nature and animal intelligence
Wow, this video blew my mind! I never thought I’d see bats fishing. The way you captured their techniques was impressive. It really makes you appreciate the wonders of nature and animal intelligence
I can’t believe bats can learn to fish! This is such a unique behavior to showcase. The way you presented the information made it easy to understand and very engaging. Fantastic job-I’ll be sharing this with my friends
0:12 I like how Sarah was being nice to the bats and not saying they are ugly, and I agree, not as cute but still cute
Dragging their feet through the water where there is not any fish currently could be used to attract future fish to that spot.
They could be using their feet as a lure in those instances.
It probably works.
Honestly fish are high in protein and if they have been fishing in these areas for hundreds to several thousands of years. They are going to keep doing it. Good for them
The way the greater bulldog bat utilizes its large feet to catch fish in the darkness is really impressive. It’s a perfect combination of echolocation and hunting skill
The greater bulldog bat is one of the very few mammals indigenous to my locale, the Virgin Islands.
(If a species is a mammal and doesn’t fly, it’s invasive here.)
just like new zealand, then, which only has native mammals that got there by air or by sea (e.g. seals)
I guess that means you're a member of an invasive species. :)
The most jarring thing I got out of that was that they’re that loud and we can’t hear them 🤯 it’s all very cool and I know we can’t hear a lot of things among all the things we interact with every day that we can’t sense but to know it’s LOUD that’s just wild
can technology help us uncover these hidden interactions?
Yeah, that's how we know how loud they are. Not sure if we can live listen without putting it through another program first tho @@AncientWildTV
If youre fortunate enough to live were there are many bats at night when they fly nearby you can hear the noises they make it sound like clicking to me, but my driveway goes through the woods and the bats fly up and down it all summer, they might only be 3 or 4 feet from your head if you're walking down it at night because of the overhead branches. I assume they like hunting there because the bugs from either side of the driveway gather in the open space provided by it.
@@franklyfrustrating that’s really cool! I think the only bats I’ve seen irl were in Austin Tx, no idea if they’re in the part I used to live in, but it was neat :)
2:46 I can explain how underwater predators can tell what’s around them with out looking. When something moves in the water or touches it, the object sends waves throughout the water. These waves hit animals which turn into signals for their brain or system to read, thus alerts whatever living thing is in the water and to go away from it or not
"It's fricken' BATS. I love Halloween"
Never getting over the pumpkin toadlet jumps 😂
Give a bat a fish and it will feed for a day. Give it echolocation, and wahey! They're set for life.
Okay that's just cool, never knew any bat ate fish. Thank you for showing me something new
I love that it's a fish-eat-bat-eat-fish world out there.
There are bats that specialise in eating frogs, and their targets have developed techniques of stopping their croaking when they hear the bats echolocating. Both the bats and frogs have developed even more complicated behaviour to manage the problem.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Don't forget about _Bertholdia trigona,_ the tiger moths that actively jam echolocation! Evolutionary arms races are fascinating.
I love your bat earrings!
Thank you! It is so cool that you get to see these bats where you live!
The earrings are designed by Monica Knighton who also designed our snail kite/island apple snail pin a couple years ago! You can find her here!
monicalknighton.com/
-Sarah
Fish are a much greater source of protein than bugs, if you can catch them.
I've seen these at Salt River Bay on St. Croix in the Caribbean. I'd never heard of fishing bats before then. What a cool adaptation!!
Sara is really rockin that pumpkin toadlet hat
Oh my goodness, I love _everything_ about these li'l guys!
I mean, to be fair that's generally true of the subjects of at least most bizarre beasts episodes, but watching this episode I was like,,, actively saying "oh wow!" and clapping along in (admittedly autistic happy-stim) delight IRL as I watched; every fact about them is simply a joy. That last fact about how obscenely loud they are is amazing, I'm still sitting with jaw slighly agape as I write this; it put me in the mind of the Blackadder Goes Forth quote, "One question, Baldrick: How did you get so much custard out of such a small cat?" (iykyk)
Our team has shown that the Greater Bulldog Bat drops down the equivalent of a hydrophone down and uses SONAR to ping underwater and find available targets.
That's awesome! Have y'all published your findings? Would love to give 'em a read!
@@GSBarlev The US military wants to study results and might bury the info as they replicate the new, game changing technology.
Really? That's very cool! We would also love to see your work!
"How does an animal get anything done while avoiding the sunlight AND moonlight?"
Some of us: 👀 😂
We went on a naturalist cruise on the Amazon a few years ago. While we were on the water at dusk hundreds of bats were fishing all around us. They flew fast enough to keep up with our boats and swished past us, picking off tiny fish from the water.
How do you talk about bat feet without talking about their feet pointing the wrong friggin direction!?
Due to their hips being so bizarrely splayed out so their knees bend the 'wrong' way.
Right?! This was totally a beast with a lot of cool adaptations that we couldn't quite fit into the episode! -Sarah
In all my years, Ive never heard of a fishing bat! Gosh I love this channel!!!
@3:37 So you're telling me fishermen (fisherbats?) from a completely different species ALSO have their own favorite fishing spots? I love these guys!
Bats skim our pool all the time. They freak me out.
They’re either grabbing bugs or taking a drink (probably the former)
Mosquitoes love standing water.
Bats may freak you out, but they are helping you!
0:12 Bats are real life goblins 👹
5:47 Subscribe to this channel if you think Complexly should make this an actual game
This is probably the cutest bat I’ve ever seen!
Flying foxes are still my favorite sky puppies, but that bulldog face is definitely extremely adorable.
Idk guys, have you seen the tent making bat (uroderma bilobatum)?
The competition is steep, that’s all I’m saying!
@@averycheesypotato You ain't wrong, my spud. You ain't wrong.
Unfuckinbelievable! A bat fishing!!! Talk about adapting!! ❤❤
Bats are awesome. They're truly amazing. Definitely underappreciated by many people.
Forget the bat feet! How rad / amazing / beautiful / cinematic was that kingfisher footage!? 👏👏👏
Those bat earings are cool too!
All bats are fascinating, but the greater bulldog’s ability to echo locate fish is especially so
Nature is so wild and so cool!
2:03
The real question is, how does a fish hunt a bat🦇?
Catfish: Hold my Beer
Something else that may be at play here is changes in bug and fish activity with the lunar cycle - it's more documented in sea-going species I guess but there ARE organisms that rely on the phase of the moon for big events like mating and spawning. If the bugs are more plentiful on a DARK night (predator avoidance) - then some predators are going to adapt and favor the darker nights. The artificial light - I'm assuming it attracts fish because the fish eat the bugs too, right? So that could be yet another layer of cause and effect.
I love bats all bats 2nd favourite animal
Me too 😊
What's your first favourite animal?
@@IrisGlowingBlue The cuttlefish
@@greenblooded395 Fair and valid
Bats will always be my favorite, but cuttlefish is a very valid choice.
“Greater bulldog bat” sounds like a monster you’d find in an RPG game
Very interesting creatures. It is amazing that their echolocation is able to detect the subtleties of surface ripples.
Pumpkin Toadlet jumps illicit soooooo many emotions (aww pity, lol hilarity, he-he mockery) and wonder (Aren't toads supposed to be good at that? Did it just die mid-air mid-jump? Is it still alive?). Thank you for ALL the feels, Bizarre Beasts 👏🙏💖
That mf in the thumbnail is a goddamn Zubat! That ain't an animal! That's a Pokemon!
I was wondering how it gradually evolved. I’m so glad that it was explored :)
As if I didn’t love bats enough now you teach me about these rad things. Thanks!
Awesome as always thanks ❤
Fun fact.
All... Most common bats live near bodies of water... I think it is something like 90% or so live within .5 miles of a body of water...
Coolest thing I've seen all day
Once i did try to make a conversation with my friends about the Pumpkin toad video
It didn't go very well but it was funny to watch the jumping fails again jeje
speaking of feet, their legs look like they are twisted 180 degrees
my favorite type of bat
I'm such a nerd! Lol! I love this kind of stuff! Learning is an amazing thing. Knowledge everywhere you just have to find it
Pumpkin toadlet,cool creature
Pumpkin toadlets seem like they should be the beta version for a different toad.
The fact that means that have a call too high-pitched for us to hear does not mean it’s safe for you to be around them for very long. Sounds you can’t hear it can still damage your hearing.
Whoa, mind blown
A honking bat? So, a goose-bat...lol! Or, a gat! Or, boose! Which's just like saying "boss" with an Italian accent! LmMFaO!!! ;) :P :o)
5:18 little guy went Σ:3
Bizarre Beasts I just saw a clip of a Hippo fighting a dinosaur!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5:47 tier zoo would like to have a word with you....
What a collab that would be...
The fishing cat would give the thumbs up
Well, tries to
Wow!
I once saw a bat do little hops or gallops... Is that weird? I'm in the Philippines btw, and I was in Surigao Del Sur, Mindanao
Depends on the species, but most bats don’t do well on the ground.
It could have been sick, injured, or a young bat that was separated from the mother. Or if it was a fruit bat, it could simply be drunk! Fermented fruit will do that
@@averycheesypotato Awww no, please don't tell me I didn't save a helpless animal, it was big-ish, smaller than a fruit bat bigger than regular bats, I'm guessing it was a fruitbat young. It didn't look unhealthy or dying, it just hopped, and grabbed a tree trunk, it was strong enough so I left it.... I should've checked again.
@@karlmark9967 if it was able to climb it might be ok?
Hopefully it was just tipsy from eating too much ripe fruit 🤞
@@averycheesypotato Yeah, that was it, that's what happened, I'm sure, no one should convince me otherwise.
Ok, they're pretty great.. nomenclature confirmed.
Your hair looks great!
So use light for better night fishing, got it!
Also I'm sure plenty of people would be interested in a feet focused episode...
greater bulldog bat? more like greater bullhorn bat!
Hey bulldog
Cool! Thank you.
vampire bat vídeo
nice
Beep beep!
Beanie? We have a perfectly good word for it. Next time, call it a toque, pronounced too-k
Canadian ehhhhh high-five
Beauty eh? Goes great with a Canadian Tuxedo.
Talk about ironic
LunaR Phobia dandy
th-cam.com/video/0UJDrKY3EDw/w-d-xo.html really glad they went with Bulldog on this one
❤
Grabby feet!
They look like little winged Frenchies. I love them.
🦇🤎🦇🤎🦇🤎🦇🤎🦇
🦇🐟🍽🧡
Vid
2:52 how many inches above the water???????????????????
Low quality video game graphics really makes things understandable to my gen X brain!
Inferior to birds of prey and fishing birds.
We stkll dont even ehy platypusses(or whatever their pulral form is, platypeople maybe) have a flippi bill
Perhaps the bats started to realize there is less and less insects around so they started to find different sources of nutrition.