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[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

This would be like if there was another great ape and it had wings and could fly and we sometimes saw them

[-] carotte 9 points 6 days ago

meanwhile, french mice:

"look! they’re bald!"

[-] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago

woah, bats do kinda look like rats with wings

[-] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 22 points 1 week ago

Don't know if you're joking, but in french, bats are called "chauve-souris", which literally means "bald mouse".

[-] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

And in German a bat is a Fledermaus, which literally means "wing-mouse"

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Ratpenat in Catalan, winged rat.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

In Serbian, we just call them blind rat.

[-] SeekPie 7 points 6 days ago

In Estonian they're "nahkhiir", which means skin + rat.

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my language they are called "ratapinyada" or "ratpenat" from the latin for winged rat.

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

In my town in the summer, there's a spot where just after sunset you can see the flocks of swallows retreating from the fields while flocks of bats arrive from the other side. It is cool to see.

This sounds sooo cool

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Rats in Germany have discovered how to catch bats and eat them by staying near a cave entrance and grabbing them out of the air

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Flying demons more like.

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