💜 Raisin is back! Everyone’s favorite rescued Jamaican fruit bat says scratches taste just as good as mango. 😋 She’s soaking up all the love (and pretending it’s dessert). #RaisinTheBat #BatWorldSanctuary #FruitBatLove | Bat World Sanctuary

😴🍉 It’s a Sleepy Saturday with our Frank, an elderly retired Jamaican fruit bat. While his caretaker tidies up around him, Frank is perfectly content—curled up on a plush toy, slowly savoring his melon. 💛 Life at Bat World Sanctuary means comfort, care, and endless snacks for seniors like Frank. 🦇✨ #BatWorldSanctuary #FruitBat #SleepySaturday | Bat World Sanctuary

Happy Bat appreciation day! 🦇 Meet the Jamaican fruit-eating bat! These adorable frugivores eat figs and other tropical forest fruits along with pollen, nectar, and a few insects, and the pulpy layer around some nuts. When they carry the fruits away to eat them, they drop the nuts which disperses the seeds for future trees. They can be found in a variety of habitats from central Mexico to Paraguay and Brazil, and also the Bahamas, Antilles, Trinidad, Tobago, and Key West, Florida. Bats play a c

Its $5 Friday! 😀 This is our sweet rescued girl, Tinkerbell. ❤ Tink is a 12-year-old Jamaican fruit bat. Her mother was one of the many unfortunate bats that had become part of the exotic pet trade, where bats live short lives of loneliness and terror. She died giving birth to her daughter. When Tink arrived, she was, as is heartbreakingly common for bat pups whose mothers have died in childbirth- still clinging to her mom’s body. Tink was hand-raised at Bat World and despite the traumatic even

Did you know Jamaican fruit bats are a species of leaf-nosed bat characterized by a leaflike shape on their nose, this feature helps bats navigate, hunt, and avoid obstacles by using echolocation. Echolocation occurs when a sound wave is emitted, then bounces off objects and returns an echo that provides information about the object’s distance and size! This helps Jamaican fruit bats navigate even in complete darkness.🦇❤️ | Bat World Sanctuary

Blind as a bat? Don't be so sure! All species of bat can see. In addition to their sense of smell and echolocation, frugivore (fruit-eating) bats such as our Jamaican fruit bats actually have great eyesight, which they use to help find food! | Vancouver Aquarium

Finished up the Jamaican Fruit Bat for the Vancouver Aquarium. Here’s a little look. #artdoll #artdollmaker #artist #poseableartdoll #fauxtaxidermy #fyp #studiovlog #dollartist #polymerclay #bat | Creatures of Nat