#mormoopidae

Rusty Mustached Bat Pteronotus rubiginosus

It has a wide distribution through Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Pteronotus rubiginosus in some cases forms substantial populations, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of individuals. The caves that house these large populations are called bat caves and, in some cases, they can also be called hot caves when such caves have higher temperatures due to the body heat radiated by the colonies formed by tens of thousands of bats.

There's nothing supernatural about the ghost-faced bat, except maybe how cute it is! It's unusual facial features are actually an adaptation for echolocation; it's large ears and specially-formed wrinkles help the bat to direct and receive the high-pitched calls that it uses to navigate.

as a modern identifier it’s been associated with people whose beliefs are rather extreme and who deny the existence of gay and bi trans people as well as nonbinary people. but that’s my experience from this discourse a few years ago, where the people who identified as hbsers were vocally angry with truscum for allowing these people.

btw i don’t like to get involved in any medical/non-medical trans discourse bc as far as i’m concerned people can do what they want and hrt should be easy to obtain since it’s an individual decision that has a lot of factors and isn’t even exclusive to trans ppl. i lurked a lot when i was a teenager bc i was just figuring out gender stuff and all the infighting definitely didn’t help, but at least the resources on dysphoria did.

Modern? It’s 13 years old. It just endorses and relies on trans politics from 1955.

And yes, a lot of (but not all) HBSers are violently queerantagonistic; it’s a natural consequence of the “otherwise normal” part of their politics.

(And no, in my experience and those of my NB headmates and partners, truscum and transmeds are not particularly accepting of NB people. Extremely, violently the opposite of that, in fact.)

Sooty Mustached Bat (Pteronotus quadridens)

The sooty mustached bat always looks like it’s puckering up for a big ‘ol kiss. Very luscious kissable lips. Also a weird lump above its nose? I don’t know what that’s there for. I don’t know what a lot of anything here is for. Mustached bats (there’s five species of these extremely smoochable bats) are members of the Mormoopidae family, a group of really odd, understudied bats. In fact, moustached bats are probably the most normal-looking ones of the bunch. I’m not brave enough to try to draw their relatives the ghost-faced bats yet.

Sooty Moustached Bat Pteronotus quadridens

It is found in throughout the Greater Antilles, in Cuba, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Sooty mustached bats roost exclusively in caves. They are one of the most common bats in Cuba and Puerto Rico