The orange pigment is likely from 'pheomelanin', the same thing that causes red hair color in humans, rather than dietary carotenoids like in some other bats. A ginger bat! A colorful little guy & very Spooky Season themed 🦇🎃! More here: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/40458-K...

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They feed on insects during twilight or nighttime hours & during the day they roost in bird nests, overhangs of huts, or natural clumps of dead vegetation, often in family-based clusters of 3-6. Because they're rare & reclusive, we don't have good estimates of their population growth or stability.

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These colorful little guys are going trick-or-treating as *dead leaves* for Halloween, concealing themselves during the day in clusters of dry vegetation. In areas where native forests are scarce, some have adapted to banana plantations, as shown in this BBC Earth documentary in northern Thailand.

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What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

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Backgrounds who? #infinitethejackal #sonicart

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