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i appreciate that the taxonomic divisions of the bat family are the megabats and the microbats

@Felthry I appreciate from rescue videos that megabat reactions to being caught/handled range from passive to curious to angry, while microbats forgo all diplomacy and just show their teeth a lot. :P

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@Felthry

The fun part about that division is that the megabats and microbats might not even be related to each other. Their similarity could be convergent evolution. We don't know, because there's no record of what bats evolved from. Bats just pop up in the fossil record all of a sudden, already fully formed and perfect, like Minerva, or like space invaders.

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@frameacloud @Felthry

It's dragons, clearly.

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