Bat Beauty Contest Day 4: Count Frostula vs ChewBATca

Original post

Get your votes in for today’s bat beauty competition! Thanks for your incredible enthusiasm and for continuing to support these little bats! We are rolling into day of 4 of our #BatBeautyContest! Today is the last day of before our semi-finals featuring match-ups from the winners of the first 4 rounds. Today, we have a fang-tastic face-off! Count Frostula, the pallid bat, takes to the skies against ChewBATca, the big brown bat, in a match-up that’s sure to be a real bite! Count Frostula has been frosting his tips since before it was cool. And it looks great on him. Really. Truly. Great. “Hoary” means grayish white, and that silver-tipped fur gives the Count a vibe best described as “vampire who peaked in a 2003 mall photo booth.” He skips the castle and roosts alone in tree foliage, wrapped in his furry tail membrane like a cape. He did not buy the cape. He grew the cape. Please stop asking about the cape. The best co-pilot any scoundrel could ask for, ChewBATca is the most adorable little fuzzball, and no one is going to move this flying carpet out of the way. The big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) is one of the most widespread bats in North America, found from Canada through the United States and into Central and northern South America. They are mainly found in forests, cities, farmland, and suburban areas and are known to roost in tree hollows, caves, rock crevices, barns, attics, and other structures. You may think the other bats are cool, but we suggest a new strategy: let the fluffy bat win. A single big brown bat may consume 1,000+ insects per night, but don’t worry, he doesn’t pull people’s arms outta their sockets when he loses. Cast your vote for this round of cutest bat! Fangs in advance. 🦇 https://ow.ly/HxbG5100ZQR 📸Photo one: Count Frostula, by Cameron McQuivey, BLM Utah 📸Photo Two: Chewbatca, by Hannah Cowan, BLM Utah Bat Week Bat Conservation International U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of the Interior