(well the ones I wanted to draw because I like them)

Y'all can probably tell most of them but if you can't I can explain

None of them ever actually look like bats! I could be generous, and guess that they’re supposed to to be flying fox/mega bat/fruit bats… but even those look distinctly different from dogs!?!

Like, is an art style thing? Is the current generic furry art style that bad portraying animals that aren’t generic ‘cat’ or ‘German shepherd dog’?

Is it because grey headed flying foxes are one of the more popular and recognizable species of bat to most people? They aren’t the only type of flying fox nor is the flying fox the only type of fruit bats!

And don’t get me started on when they call it a ‘vampire bat’ , and it looks nothing like any of the three species of those… or even a micro bat in general!? They don’t have long muzzles! The face is small, and round, and sort of flat!! You might as well say “this is my vampire themed dog sona”…

Like… bat fursonas could be so much more interesting and varied if people just… actually looked at a real bat? Look at any type of bat! Different species have different have different body proportions (small and round, dorito, rounded rectangle, puff ball floof), different facial features (nose leafs/tubes, ear ridges/flaps, big ol’eyes, little button eyes, split lower lips…) , eat different things (small vertebrates, fish, fruits, flowers, bugs, blood)!! There is more that can be done with bats than ‘dog face’ and ‘only eat fruit or blood’!