Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-15927899-20131012211042/@comment-24020550-20131015222327

Awwww! What a cute vampie baaaaat! Wook at him with cute widdle squished nose!

Dude, if you want to throw a frightening bat-face up, try something like the wrinkled faced bat.

http://www.rounds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/a-wrinkle-faced-bat1.png

Also, you're talking to someone who loves bats, no matter how they look so XD;;

Though, on that note, the bats that Kirby came in contact with shouldn't have those types of noses...In the NYC, there is 9 species of bats, 6 of which are cave type and 3 which are tree type.

Cave type:

Northern Bat:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eptesicus_nilssoni.jpg

Little Brown Bat:  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VLw3djjoiao/TgIT1jj41zI/AAAAAAAABrw/hUazNCGuB_k/s320/big-brown-body.jpg

Big Brown Bat:  http://www.outdooralabama.com/watchable-wildlife/images/Big%20Brown%20Bat2.jpg

Indiana Bat:  http://www.prairiestateoutdoors.com/images/uploads/indianabat.jpg (endangered, poor thing)

Eastern Pipistrelle:  http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/images/images/825132011777082.jpg

Small-Footed Bat:  http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/14898923.jpg

All of these tend to hang out in little cracks and crevises, and are very unlikely to hang upside down from fire-escapes. So then those bats must have been a type of tree bat. Of which we have:

Red Bat:  http://biology.eku.edu/bats/redbatphoto.jpg (migratory)

Hoary Bat:  http://wallpaper.searchrealm.com/Birds/Bat/hoary-bat.jpg (migratory)

Silver-Haired Bat:  http://www.essexonlakechamplain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/silver_haired_bat.jpg  (migratory)

As you can see, none of these bats have the 'leaf-nose' which is more common in Central and South America, which is what Kirby is depicted with. But instead of a vampire bat, they chose a totally different type of bat. Infact it looks as if they took the California leaf-nose bat's look for him http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/California_leaf-nosed_bat.jpg

Which...for us would make no sense, but in cali they're all over the place in the deserts so probably what the artists usually see instead of doing their homework. Which seems to happen alot. (no, Cali-bats DONOT occur normally in NYC, nor can they be kept as pets, so yeah.)

But then again, we're talking about a show with mutated turtles who are taught by a rat-mutated man who are fighting aliens, and there's NO MIB or Government involvement......sooooo yeah I guess they can get away with it. XD