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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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@BizarreBeasts 8 дней назад

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@thomgizziz 7 дней назад

Whaaaat? RU-vidrs, especially popular ones that seem to be about making money, don't get the facts right really really often? I'm shocked, shocked I say, shocked.

@takenname8053 8 дней назад

Hank really hating on a bat just trying its best. lol

@camsy83 5 дней назад

Right?? Why do down on the bat sounds Hank? I think they sound pretty cool 😊

@lindareed8265 7 дней назад

"Lekking is uncommon in mammals." Every nightclub I've ever been to begs to differ.

@orionhardy 8 дней назад

They don't sound that bad. I've definitely heard worse at a karaoke night.

@joshsatterwhite1571 8 дней назад

Ah, karaoke bars... the human Lek.

@MrT_Rex 8 дней назад

Agree

@drewharrison6433 8 дней назад

Scary oke... Lol

@RedstonerD 7 дней назад

they don't sound bad, they sound bat ✨

@toryumau6798 7 дней назад

@@RedstonerD … To be fair, it takes talent to hit that high screech. >)X^D

@takatacheroki2624 8 дней назад

"Sounds awful too" Nah, it just sounds like a weird duck call lol

@nyanuwu4209 6 дней назад

Ducks are a bit rapey. Their calls are surely ominous.

@Carewolf 4 дня назад

Like the call of a Disco Duck.

@AthAthanasius 8 дней назад

05:12 - Hank! These bats don't sound awful at all! I was expecting something really screeching, or otherwise sounding like screaming. That's just adorable!

@TheDocfri 8 дней назад

Agreed!

@Thoran666 7 дней назад

Imagine 100 of them near you when you try to sleep.

@KBRoller 7 дней назад

@@Thoran666 Look, I've got frogs around my neighborhood that are apparently nocturnal, so like 6 months out of the year I have to hear *them* all night long. I'm used to it, and would rather have a cute bat making noise instead 😂

@dh8203 7 дней назад

They sound a bit like a bird, and not bad at all compared to a lot of animal calls.

@alyssaoconnor 7 дней назад

They sound like a mix of the crickets and frogs that live near me, I agree not a bad sound at all.

@NewMessage 8 дней назад

Dude found his look in 15th century demonology spellbooks.

@garshtoshteles 4 дня назад

Thought you meant Hank for a sec

@DistrarSubvoyikar 3 дня назад

That reminds me of the song called Belfagor Sigla

@solidman8360 8 дней назад

2:36 this is a misconception; bat wings are actually more efficient than feathered wings (with the main advantage of feathers being protection). Not only are bats very manoeuvrable and efficient fliers, but the worlds fastest flying animal is the mexican free-tailed bat. (The peregrine falcon is only the fastest animal when including speeds reached by diving, which in my opinion is cheating)

@Eloraurora 8 дней назад

Isn't insulation also a major feather advantage? Hence the lack of bat equivalents to snowy owls or ptarmigans.

@ArawnOfAnnwn 8 дней назад

How is diving cheating? 😡Don't you take ma boi Peregrine's title away from him! 😤

@RedstonerD 7 дней назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn controlled falling does not equal flying! the fastest human skydiver fell twice the maximum speed your bird can reach, and I wouldn't call that flying.

@George_M_ 7 дней назад

Fully living wings on bats and the flying reptiles of old are vulnerable to damage and require a lot more brain power to use and articulate correctly. Bird wings have evolved past a lot of the day to day problems even if their direct physical force to use is higher.

@ArawnOfAnnwn 7 дней назад

@@RedstonerD If controlled falling isn't flying, then gliders don't fly. 😤Hell a lot of planes don't really fly either, neither does the space shuttle.

@drakkondarkspell 8 дней назад

So they're the elephant seals of the bat world.

@nyanuwu4209 6 дней назад

The saiga antelope of the bat world.

@Echo81Rumple83 6 дней назад

my thoughts exactly! and i HATE those things, but these bats are rather cute :3

@victoriaeads6126 7 дней назад

That schnoz is just adorable. It's so OTT that it's come out the other side into squishable territory 😂❤ 🦇

@thatoctahedronfan8othercha37 8 дней назад

Ah! The real life Jersey Devil is finally here!!!! Love the Hammerheaded Bats! That little face makes me so, SO happy. They are so cute! Also to me, the noise is quite cute! Sounds like he's honking a little toy trumpet!

@FellowLee 8 дней назад

@1TakoyakiStore 8 дней назад

I like calling them Flying Honk Hounds.

@ernestlam5632 8 дней назад

I was going to say something similar because they really do kind of match the description of the Jersey devil.

@ambertypereiraty3627 7 дней назад

😂 I agree 💯 they are SO CUTE!!! 🥰🥰🥰 And there are MUCH WORSE nocturnal noises... imagine the HELL some people in Australia and New Zealand have to listen to when there's either a mated penguin pair catching up after separation from the previous mating season(NZ), or a koala 🐨 (marsupials in general seem to be VERY TONE DEAF) Down Under making a ruckus....? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

@H.Irish616 6 дней назад

@@1TakoyakiStoreI must say this is a great name for them 😅

@ronchappel4812 6 дней назад

When my friend married a few years back they actually mentioned bats in their wedding vows. She liked caring for injured bats while he wanted nothing to do with them😅

@b.a.erlebacher1139 8 дней назад

The sound is no more horrible than many bird calls. It sounds a bit like a grey squirrel alarm call, but smoother. Granted, a few hundred of these guys competing might be a bit loud. As for ugly, well that's in the eye of the beholder. If I were a female of this species, I might find a huge nose extremely handsome! I'm glad you got away from this pattern of applying our human value judgments to animals later in your series. Animals are the way evolution shaped them. We should admire the diversity, and not intrude our biased human opinions on their appearance and way of life.

@PhlegmaticAbsentee 8 дней назад

Hammerheaded Bats evolved to make dubstep beats.

@codyrhodes1344 8 дней назад

Would that be an example of convergent evolution between humans and hammerhead bats?

@sharonkaczorowski8690 8 дней назад

That was awesome!

@ArawnOfAnnwn 8 дней назад

@@codyrhodes1344 More like between hammerhead bats and hammerhead sharks. 'Cept hammerhead sharks didn't evolve their shape for this reason afaik, so I guess not. Or maybe they did? I think the jury is still out on that one...

@codyrhodes1344 7 дней назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Nah, hammerhead sharks evolved to be dancers, their wide head let's them pick up all the frequencies and rythms, both acoustic and electro. Hammerhead bats are the apex musicians of their clade. Other primates, like the gibbon, can sing, but only us humans can make sick wub-de-wub beats.

@codyrhodes1344 7 дней назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Look at how graceful hammerhead sharks move, they're on a totally different vibe than any us mammals could reach.

@joshuasims5421 7 дней назад

Fun fact, the word 'Lek' is from the Swedish word 'lek' meaning 'play', and is thus cognate with the word Lego (from Danish leg godt = play well!)

@YoungMule 8 дней назад

Love this series. Growing up all facts were given to us as if they were immutable, I love this practice of showing how info changes overtime it gives the average person more context to how science operates. Hopefully the next generation has less misconceptions

@bla19234 7 дней назад

With a face only a nocturnal species could love. Damn, Hank spittin fire.

@PaulG.x 7 дней назад

The correct classifications are: (traditional): Megachiroptera Microchiroptera (present): Yinpterochiroptera Yangochiroptera The Yinpterochiroptera (or Pteropodiformes) is a suborder of the Chiroptera, which includes taxa formerly known as megabats and five of the microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, and Megadermatidae. This suborder is primarily based on molecular genetics data. Yangochiroptera, or Vespertilioniformes, is a suborder of Chiroptera that includes most of the microbat families, except the Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, and Megadermatidae.

@anactualprayingmantis5054 7 дней назад

Oh, my, goodness. Hammerheaded bats are so freaking cute. I love them

@samhuni8271 7 дней назад

Hank hates the sound, I feel like making music out of it 😅

@soragami6247 8 дней назад

If there are Megabats, and there are Microbats, where are the Mediumbats?

@ArawnOfAnnwn 8 дней назад

They were too mid for evolution. You either become the best adapted for your environment, or don't bother playing.😎

@KBRoller 7 дней назад

Medibats eventually evolved into doctorbats.

@Rickenbacker4005XC 6 дней назад

Listening to the Aquabats.

@IrisGlowingBlue 3 дня назад

Good thread everybody

@jessejorgensen3931 7 дней назад

That’s no bat! That’s the Jersey Devil!

@ColonelBummleigh 8 дней назад

Cool little guys,they look like they have bags of character. We're really lucky to have bats in our garden where I live in Scotland. Great seeing their acrobatics each evening darting around the street lamps eating insects.

@MoonLitChild 5 дней назад

This is my favorite time of year to watch the sun set outside and see the bats start to come out. There's no where near as many where I live now as where I grew up (we could literally stand still in the summer in the middle of the yard and have them dive-bomb at us going after the swarms of gnats that would congregate) but it's nice to have any at all.

@ayinlaaremu159 7 дней назад

“They are real and so are the pins” Yes, the pins exist

@yueli92 8 дней назад

All bats are highly intelligent. Some may not have the most appealing looks, but they're all fascinating creatures.

@brettwood1351 7 дней назад

Still, come on guys, you are totally letting skin membrane flight down, Pterasaurs are spinning in their fossil beds at how small you've stayed!

@existenceisillusion6528 7 дней назад

Sooo....there's a bat species that gets turned on by the sound of dial-up?

@ChroniclogicalJeff 8 дней назад

So I guess it goes without saying that Batman is a... is the Megabat.

@UtubeH8tr 8 дней назад

Where's my pot of gold leprechaun?

@Eloraurora 8 дней назад

The funny thing is, most of the bats he's depicted with are microbats. Both because they're what you'd find in -New York- Gotham, and because they're weirder/scarier-looking.

@VincentTorneyPlus 6 дней назад

No Jeff. No. We are NOT doing This. Not now. (Maybe later, on some different Bat-Channel at some different Bat-Time.... 🤔...But in the meantime may I interest you in some delicious #TRUMP2024🇺🇸? 😏... C'MON Jeffy, #OrangeYouCurious?)

@RunD.Ones1s 4 дня назад

Ummm ackkkshuaally the species he’s depicted as mimicking are microbats 🤓

@Eloraurora 3 дня назад

@@RunD.Ones1s You have a very low 'ackshually' bar; I didn't even pull a list of species from Wikipedia. Please, raise your standards for assigning nerd credit, I feel like I haven't worked hard enough to deserve it in this instance.

@Galvamel 8 дней назад

I find it really interesting how much the Hammer head Bat looks like some pictures of the Jersey Devil, could that somehow be what started the myth?

@brettwood1351 7 дней назад

Depends on when the current popular depiction became widespread, and who did it.

@teleriferchnyfain 7 дней назад

It happened in the 1700s. Current best theory is that some hammerheads bats stowed away on ships & escaped into the pine barrens 🤗

@brettwood1351 7 дней назад

@@teleriferchnyfain I can see that happening. Seeing an unfamilier animal in the dark like that, you can very easily go and think it's a monster.

@ericvilas 7 дней назад

3:25 "looking kinda dumb" oh it's from That Time in Vlogbrothers! I remember this!

@curiousfirely 7 дней назад

Ah ha ha! I'm glad someone else noticed too 😂

@IrisGlowingBlue 3 дня назад

@philip5513 8 дней назад

Look at that little wolf face it looks like it would weigh it down in flight lol

@DeoxTew 7 дней назад

1:54 so damn ROUND, why is it so ROUND? I love it! 😭😭

@KBRoller 7 дней назад

It's a fluffbat! 🥰

@MoonLitChild 5 дней назад

If a round bird is a borb does that make a round bat a baorb? orbt?

@wildflower1397 5 дней назад

The split nose is because fruit juice and gravity don't play well together up your nose. When a bat hangs upside down to feed on fruit, juice drips down towards the tip of their nose. The "split nose" is a channel between the nostrils for it to flow down so that it doesn't go up their nose. Some fruit bats are tube-nosed for the same reason, with adorable little Shrek faces. ❤

@LaineyBug2020 7 дней назад

In my head the mega bat has a voice like Miss Piggy.

@jeffreycooke9613 7 дней назад

It sounds like how an original Nintendo entertainment system would create a cicada sound

@shawnferguson5681 6 дней назад

“A face that only a nocturnal species could love”... ha ha ha

@korrafey1044 7 дней назад

I genuinely believe a lost one of these is the source of the jersey devil origin

@spoolofyarn6682 7 дней назад

As for the sound of the Hammerhead Bat, I can prove that there are vastly worse sounds than that honking. Just look up what a koala sounds like.

@thelayoffm965 7 дней назад

I'd have that as an alarm tone

@lindareed8265 7 дней назад

Someone PLEASE sample that bat mating call and use it in a song! They've got beats!

@unclescar5616 8 дней назад

New bar name idea: The Lek👍🏽

@erikm8372 7 дней назад

Megabats are cute. Fruit bats. The small, scary, sharp-teeth ones freak me out. Apparently bats' closest relations are primates and rodents, more than anything. But closer to the primate side… kind of makes sense. And that’s crazy about the noises… I had always thought hammerhead bats, among different bat species, had those faces based on their primary food source… as in they target specific flowers or fruits, and their faces evolved a specific form to enable the pollinating and consumption of said fruits/flowers. I think there’s a diagram somewhere of different South American bats with crazy scary faces, next to each respective orchid they favor. And their faces fit like a puzzle into the flowers!

@dinosaurb 5 дней назад

the second you said "get permission from artists to use their work" I subscribed

@gussnarp 8 дней назад

I read the text on the thumbnail as "This is a megabit" and I was sooooo confused.

@alexhoffmann9319 8 дней назад

She's literally me fr

@crimsonraen 3 дня назад

Thanks for the video, and bringing this series back!

@xBINARYGODx 5 дней назад

Not as cute as fruit bats, but that's ok - not all puppies are actually cute, and so it is true of flying puppies too.

@GringatTheRepugnant 6 дней назад

I found out about another lek-breeder recently! The ghost moth (Hepialus humuli) which lek only in about a half hour window a few times around the summer solstice in Europe. The males congregate around a patch of flowers and make these beautiful ghostly looking hovering dances over them. Having seen them in person lately I was enthralled just watching them. It was nearly 11pm and the sky was still bright enough to see by after all! They belong to the family Hepalidae which are categorised as "deaf moths". Their lineage lacks the ability to hear ultrasonic frequencies, including those made by predatory bats. Other moths are able to hear them and get away. So it's theorised that the lekking display is both about showing off fitness even when you might get blindsided by a predator on the wing, but also the specific time and pattern of the lekking dance is just when the light levels are too low for birds and too bright for bats.

@IrisGlowingBlue 3 дня назад

That's super cool! And definitely also how fairy tales get made

@AuliaAF 3 дня назад

It's kind of amazing how they can be so big but so light. I've ever taken photos with one megabat the size of a monkey, but I never imagined they would be that light!

@MrLince-hr4of 4 дня назад

the hammerhead bat looks extrem cute if you compare it with this 5:21 🤣🤣🤣

@Skukkix23 7 дней назад

I'd say that is a slightly above average bat.

@hi_tech_reptiles 7 дней назад

Flying foxes are some of my favorite animals. Theres a woman on YT who rescues flying foxes and i think some other giant fruit bats. The hammer-headed bat is pretty wild lookin!

@MegabatsMicrobats 7 дней назад

you called?

@ambergris5705 7 дней назад

I also thought that the whole "feathers are better at flying" thing wasn't really true? There's some slow mo research of bats flying that show them catching an insect with one wing, grabbing it and bringing it to their mouth while still flying with just the other wing... Something I have never heard a bird do. Some bats also migrate, though not as far as some birds, but it's still mightily impressive for their size. But also, if we talk about the whole size thing, the biggest bird ever does not hold a candle to the gigantic Quetzalcoatlus (the size of a giraffe, remember!?), who used to have skinned wings, and no feathers. At the end of the day, between feathers, skinned wings or membraned wings like insects, I am not sure one is definitely better, they're just... Different.

@retro6294 6 дней назад

I find the sound it makes amusing and a bit silly. Like a mixture of a tambourine and bicycle horn.

@fellowhuman8830 5 дней назад

5:14 i can see cosmo sheldrake making a SICK song with this little goober

@Danin4985 4 дня назад

That’s crazy. It IS a moose on wings!

@DataRew 7 дней назад

Another Fun fact that's a correction for how Hank started this video: The Snopes website was actually started as a pre-Cryptid debunking and mythos website that eventually moved into news story evaluation. My source is Oh No Ross and Carrie's episode, "Ross Meets David Mikkelson: Snopes Edition" where Ross interviews the creator of Snopes, David Mikkelson, where he goes on about this.

@deanfirnatine7814 7 дней назад

That bat is a dead ringer for the legendary Jersey Devil or at least drawings witnesses drew, granted much smaller, but as far as looks from the waist up spot on.

@lunasif 6 дней назад

I've got to say, that bat sound would make a wicked rave beat.

@beth8775 6 дней назад

The Lek sounds sort of like speed dating 😂

@avinotion 5 дней назад

That bat wing in the thumbnail looks like someone is pitching a tent.

@Archbishopofcheeseburger 7 дней назад

Idk what anyone says, bats are so darn cute and awesome and I would pet one if they weren't so darn good at carrying diseases.

@jared5811 7 дней назад

loving the bat flair lol

@Where_is_Waldo 7 дней назад

I live in southern Alberta and, as a kid, I once found a dead bat that had a skull comparable in size to that of a small adult housecat. It had large wings and a relatively large body for a bat, I didn't know bats that big lived in the area. I wonder what kind of bat that was. Edit: I've now done some very quick googling and found that the largest bat natural to Canada apparently weighs only 35 grams so I guess this bat wasn't natural to the area. I did find it in someone's back yard just off the alley and it did look like it had just been plopped down where it was and dried out and started to decay there. I think it had been someone's pet that had died.

@ProxyAuthenticationRequired 6 дней назад

I saw Bigfoot once. 1951, back in Sequoia National Park. Had a foot on him thirty-seven inches heel to toe. It made a sound I would not want to hear twice in my life.

@lydianoack4552 7 дней назад

Dream pet for any Goth, and they don't sound all that bad.

@caroljo420 5 дней назад

I always wanted one or two of the giant fruit bats as a pet, but I don't know enough about them to properly care for one.

@allenkeith7160 5 дней назад

Malabar Giant Squirrel? First time hearing of this one. Not sure if I have seen it or not before now either.

@northeastoperations 5 дней назад

In Alabama we call microbats chicken nuggets

@malcolmgibson6288 8 дней назад

If Jimmy Durante was a bat.😅

@lem5689 5 дней назад

That side profile of the bat make it look like it was made from a Pixar movie 😭

@dmax9946 6 дней назад

"A face only a nocturnal species could love" - Hank Greene Would have been an amazing insult in highschool

@DerekCFPegritz 6 дней назад

Yo, that bat was kicking out some serious Aphex-Twin-circa-the-Ventolin-EP sounds.

@guardsmennorheimofthetanit4892 6 дней назад

So this is the "Actually 🤓" update.

@vincentx2850 4 дня назад

We should have an episode on the hero shrew, arguably the weirdest mammal of all.

@Glory2Snowstar 7 дней назад

I will not take such slander, this bat is a wonderful singer >:(

@tecumsehcristero 7 дней назад

What are you talking bout. That Bat is a cutie pie.

@maxpotion 5 дней назад

I love bats… and Hank! ❤

@PenelopeStoneVT 7 часов назад

Honestly, if you put the bat sounds to a beat it would kind of kick at a club.

@SkansgardCNC 7 дней назад

Funny how the nordic word "lek" (play) has been adopted for mating rituals. I thought it was just called "mating game" in english, since the full name, at least in norway, is "parringslek" which directly translates to mating (parring) game (lek).

@billyalarie929 7 дней назад

No that sound was HORRIFYING

@TheLusus 4 дня назад

From where is the name of the mating behavior originate from? "Lek" is play (verb) or game.

@twonumber22 8 дней назад

oh no the Chupacabra is real

@brettwood1351 7 дней назад

Yes, but it wasn't a bat.

@existenceisillusion6528 7 дней назад

El Chupanibre

@melodyszadkowski5256 6 дней назад

Investigate the Florida bonneted bat. Makes this guy look like Miss America 😁 And this guy sounds much more pleasant that this summer's cicada invasion.

@toyfan2812 8 дней назад

Did anyone else go blub blub when the grouse was leking?

@teresaellis7062 7 дней назад

😂😂Guilty! 😂😂

@serenitynow85 6 дней назад

They look like baby Jersey Devils

@johnnydarling8021 7 дней назад

1:20 That the Skyward Sword birb. 1:30 *Megabat* sounds like it's from a video game, maybe ever Pokemon if GameFreak got lazy.

@itaiko5498 7 дней назад

It’s quite skrunkly

@pierreabbat6157 6 дней назад

There are bats out the yin-yang!

@teleriferchnyfain 7 дней назад

The current theory on what sparked the Jersey Devil 😈 legends back in the 1700s is stowaway Hammerheaded bats 🦇 🤣😂🤣

@defeatSpace 6 дней назад

Looks like Scooby Doo with wings.

@ferretyluv 7 дней назад

The noise sounds pretty cute, tbh.

@Sxcheschka 7 дней назад

I wonder how the term lekking got conjured in the first place.

@lokiiago_x0x 7 дней назад

Ooh a Greater sage grouse! Thank you game changer 😂

@tomholroyd7519 7 дней назад

I cannot argue with your bat suit

@karlthomasson6776 2 дня назад

While I suppose the term "lek" has achieved its own international/anglicised pronunciation, it can be noted that it is derived from the Swedish word "lek" (meaning play) which is pronounced with a long e, similar in length to "leek" (though with an e sound rather than an i sound).

@Amehtta 5 дней назад

3:58 aBAObuh... abaobuhbaobuh!

@DissonusWren 7 дней назад

I live in australia and the only bats i've ever seen are the flying foxes, which are one of the largest bats in the world. The hammerhead doesnt seem that large in comparison.

@arx3516 7 дней назад

The hammer head bat looks like tge Jersey devil.

@kestrelwings 6 дней назад

Isn't using sound to attract mates fairly common? Humans and wolves sometimes do it. We don't use a funny face to make noise, but I don't know why you call it Lek or treat it as weird.