From Bizarre Beasts.
Welcome back to Bizarre Beasts: Season Zero, where we are remastering episodes of Bizarre Beasts that were originally created for Vlogbrothers. This episode, Hammer-headed Bats! The nocturnal mammal that looks a little strange, but sounds even stranger.
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Sources:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101784365
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Hypsignathus_monstrosus/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammerhead-bat/
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Megabat
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lek
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/what-are-bats/classifying-bats
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213012001
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12069
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https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/26/4/1156/211521?login=false
Audio of the Lek Vocalization: https://youtu.be/Cn7zl2zdLW0
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Images:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vampire-bat-stock-footage/1327135113
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/malayan-flying-fox-eating-fruit-stock-footage/1175886980?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/flying-fox-eating-fruit-upside-down-stock-footage/1154826963?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/fruit-bat-or-flying-fox-pteropus-giganteus-tourist-zone-stock-footage/1954361585?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/pair-of-egyptian-fruit-bats-rousettus-aegyptiacus-stock-footage/635794046?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/indian-flying-fox-bat-hanging-on-the-roof-pteropus-stock-footage/1137863958
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/following-a-single-flying-fox-flying-beneath-a-blue-sky-stock-footage/1254755067?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/male-greater-sage-grouse-courtship-display-with-inflated-stock-footage/1218381592?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-small-lesser-horseshoe-bat-covered-by-wings-stock-footage/1294776677?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/malabar-giant-squirrel-sitting-on-branch-eating-a-banana-stock-footage/2029499100?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-hole-inside-a-big-natural-cave-with-bats-long-stock-footage/1410106793?adppopup=true
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https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/wide-or-medium-shot-of-two-male-blackbuck-or-antilope-stock-footage/1404647560
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-of-a-fruit-bat-licking-stock-footage/1808124319?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/malibu-sea-lion-enjoying-the-sun-stock-footage/1388274274?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/shoebill-stork-standing-surrounded-by-plants-stock-footage/1067753670?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/common-vampire-bat-royalty-free-image/518596994?phrase=big+lipped+bat&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/brazilian-bat-the-brazilian-big-eyed-bat-royalty-free-image/1221511037?phrase=big+lipped+bat&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/flying-fox-flying-royalty-free-image/1994381930?phrase=megabat&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/mexican-free-tailed-bats-flying-outside-cave-texas-stock-footage/528533492?adppopup=true
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35705849
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223139
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189804521
