A small brown Mexican Free-tailed bat on a colourful fleece cloth. Its head and shoulders are towards the viewer, but tucked away in a fold of cloth. The dorsal view of its backside shows fuzzy brown hair which is shorter nearing its butt where we see the hind legs tucked close to the body and the two hind feetsies with their long grippy toes. The tail’s uropatagium or tail membrane is much smaller than other bats’ and doesn’t extend much past the booty. The long very thin tail, which is about a third as long as the body, sticks out and curves slightly to the right in this image. You can almost imagine it doing a cat-like tail slink but it is a bit more rigid. Of you want an extra detail treat, zooming in on the toesies reveals long silvery hairs. If I had the right lighting, you could see that those silvery hobbit feet hairs are photoluminescent under ultraviolet light.

A small brown Mexican Free-tailed bat on a colourful fleece cloth. Its head and shoulders are towards the viewer, but tucked away in a fold of cloth. The dorsal view of its backside shows fuzzy brown hair which is shorter nearing its butt where we see the hind legs tucked close to the body and the two hind feetsies with their long grippy toes. The tail’s uropatagium or tail membrane is much smaller than other bats’ and doesn’t extend much past the booty. The long very thin tail, which is about a third as long as the body, sticks out and curves slightly to the right in this image. You can almost imagine it doing a cat-like tail slink but it is a bit more rigid. Of you want an extra detail treat, zooming in on the toesies reveals long silvery hairs. If I had the right lighting, you could see that those silvery hobbit feet hairs are photoluminescent under ultraviolet light.