Bat Fact: Bats love funky-smelling trees

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If anyone is wondering what a sausage tree looks like:

Thank you! I did! Now where are the epaulettes on this bat?

Edit: Fashion

You got it! It’s little tufts of white hair near their shoulders, they also have them around the ears, but only the males. The hairs can be held erect to form a white rosette. It’s a secondary sexual dimorphism in these bats, essentially.

To learn more: animaldiversity.org/…/Micropteropus_pusillus/

Micropteropus pusillus (Peters's dwarf epauletted fruit bat) | INFORMATION | Animal Diversity Web