Hi guys, it's M today, I'm here with my buddy, Kashmir, or just Kashi for short

牠是印度狐蝠，又稱「大狐蝠」 牠不是寵物蝙蝠，也沒住在我家

He is an Indian fruit bat. He's not a pet bat. He doesn't live here at home

00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:29,840 實際上牠一直都待在我工作的地方，是為了拍影片所以我才把牠帶牠回家

That wouldn't be fair at all he actually belongs to the place

影片中將會看到我跟牠有親密的互動

I used to work at I've just brought him home so that I can do a video with him

看起來雖然很可愛，但拜託別認為所有蝙蝠都能這麼做

You will see me interacting with him in the video

我不認同把蝙蝠當寵物，雖然牠們真的超級可愛>

It's quite cute, but please don't think that it's okay to do this with any bat

拜託你在任何地方發現蝙蝠時，都別牠們帶走 狂犬病是非常危險的

I don't endorse bats as pets although. He is insanely cute

而且在各國都非常盛行，如果你發現蝙蝠

Please if you find a bat wherever you are in the world don't pick it up rabies is very serious

請你離牠遠一點，並通知當地的野生動物復健中心

And it is very prevalent in a lot of countries where a lot of you are watching so if you find a bat

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Please leave it alone contact your local wildlife

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Rehabilitator if you're in the United States or in the UK we do have a bat trust as well another note I'd like to add

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Is that Kashmir was not taken from the wild he was born in captivity in England and comes from a long line of captive bats

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Also, please remember to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already

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It's a fun place to be I bring you lots of weekly creature features

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And I'm gonna start inserting a couple of other things in there as well you having a quick clean

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Okay, you have a little clean take it. I'm not gonna hold it for you

00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:35,900 正如其名，印度狐蝠來自印度

Okay, I'll hold it. I also just quickly want to shout out to the Birch, Please! Studio

牠們群聚生活

Especially to Fran who creates these amazing necklaces, and I just love this one it says

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"Swallows are so cliche" as the name Indian fruit that would suggest Kashmir comes from India

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He would live in a really really large colony they can be

00:01:51,420 --> 00:01:55,240 通常人們郊外旅遊然後經過這群蝙蝠時

Hundreds strong and speaking of strong the other strong thing apart from the numbers is their odor it's not your fault

第一時間會察覺到的就是他們的臭味跟叫聲，通常在你聞到跟聽到牠們前都不會看到牠們，因為牠們真的叫超大聲

But you do smell horrendous

印度狐蝠被列為夜行性動物，意味著他們晚上才醒來

So they are indeed a very

但他們並不完全夜行性，印度狐蝠以及澳洲狐蝠

Smelly creature in fact a lot of people when they go traveling and they, they come across

他們會定期在白天尋找水果，也會曬太陽

Colonies the first thing you'll notice is the smell, and the sound often you don't even see them until you've smelt them and, and heard

他們很享受曬太陽

Them because they are so loud although Indian fruit bats are listed as a nocturnal species meaning they wake up at night

通常你會看到印度狐蝠

They're not strictly nocturnal Indian fruit bats along

用一隻腳懸掛在樹上，而翅膀完全保持休息的狀態

Australian fruit bats will periodically take opportunities to graze on fruit in the daytime as well as to bask in the Sun

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They will relax so much in the Sun that often you can see fruit bats

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Dangling from the trees with one foot whilst their wings hang down in total rest now

00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:50,060 其實呢，他們一直都是上下顛倒的 基本上你不會找到任何一隻蝙蝠是直立的

I put out an Instagram post a couple of months ago where I showed Kashmir hanging upside down in my hand and I had this

印度狐蝠擁有一對鉤狀大腳趾及翅膀

Backlash I had to remove the picture because everyone was going, "Why are you forcing him to live upside down?"

大部分的人都期望在他們的翅膀上看到牠們小小的手指 就跟蜜袋鼯有點像

Why why, would you do that?

但其實蝙蝠的翅膀就是牠們的手

Well, they actually always live upside-down you'll never find a bat

印度狐蝠的翅膀就像其他蝙蝠一樣

The right way up walking around Indian fruit bats have to feet with permanently hooked toenails and a pair of wings

牠們的手橫跨著翅膀的薄膜 你能從這裡看看到牠的拇指其實就像是鉤子一樣

Many people expect to see these little hands and fingers somewhere on the bat's wing a bit like a sugar glider

這讓他們可以在樹上移動 而且能把眼前的樹枝勾向牠們自己

But actually the bat's wing is the bat's hand

我並沒有訓練他們這樣上下顛倒 牠其實一直都是顛倒的

Indian fruit bat's wings are just like our own

牠吃的時候是顛倒的，睡覺的時候也是顛倒的

Fingered hands with skin stretched across them. their thumb is actually a hook seen here

呼吸的時候顛倒，就連雌性蝙蝠也是顛倒著生產的。 當雌性狐蝠生產時，

Which they used to move themselves around the trees and to hook onto branches to pull through it towards them?

他們只會有一個小寶寶

I haven't trained Kashmir to be upside down. He's just always upside down

事實上他們需要在翅膀裡面抓住寶寶，所以想像一下 牠們是倒掛著生產的

He will eat upside-down, he sleeps upside down

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He breeds upside down, and females will actually give birth upside down. When the females give birth

00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:56,179 他們以水果為主食，代表他們要吃水果維生。

They usually give birth to just one baby fruit bat

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And they actually have to catch the baby inside their wings so imagine that upside down they start to give birth

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They have to lick the infant in order to stimulate it to breathe and they have to catch it in their wing and hope that

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The baby holds on to them so that the baby doesn't fall off as the name also suggests

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They are also frugivorous meaning that they are predominantly fruit-eating bats, although. They are frugivorous

00:04:20,609 --> 00:04:22,130 全然地超乎尋常

They do have these really sharp

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Pointy teeth and those are used to grip onto fruits because fruits are often a round or a spherical shape and they don't have hands

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In order to be able to sort of hold an opposable thumbs to manipulate and be able to bite

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Effectively so they do have to have quite sharp teeth in order to grip that food

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And then what they'll do is they'll actually place it inside their wing and cradle that food whilst eating it upside down

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It's quite remarkable

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They really love the watery juicy fruits out there for example grapes

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And what they'll do they will start by turning the grape in their mouth

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Chewing at the same time whilst turning with those really pointy teeth and then they use their tongue

00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:07,850 Kashmir以及其他的印度狐蝠 有著這世界上可愛到不行的咀嚼聲

Which is a triangular shape and quite long and and very ridgy as well

牠們很享受進食 準備好一起墜入愛河或者當個排斥者

They'll use that to press the food up to the top of their roof of their mouth

(嚼嚼嚼)

Where they've got these bony ridges and they will scrape. So they basically go like this. They go

嗨~

*Chewing Sounds*

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So they just suck up all the

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Juicy bits swallow that and then spit out any of the skin and some of the larger seeds as well

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Kashmir and the other Indian fruit bats take the prize for the most adorable chamming or chewing sounds in the world they

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Definitely enjoy their food get ready to either fall in love or be severely repulsed

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*Bat Eating Sound*

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Now bats are really important if it weren't for bats there wouldn't be that many

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Rainforests because bats eat so much fruit that when they eat those seeds they carry them miles and miles away

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And then they deposit the seeds off in their droppings in their guano Indian fruit bats are luckily not endangered

蝙蝠在你耳邊呼吸感覺 >///< 當他們吸氣時其實就感覺像是有東西在耳邊震動 同時也很像

They're listed as of Least Concern which means that there are

有蛾在你耳邊嗡嗡響

bountiful numbers of fruit bats in the wild however in the United States

(吃吃吃)

There's a horrible disease called white-nose which is starting to affect lots of populations of bats

00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:38,260 Kashi 你好可愛喔~

It's quite an epidemic and a lot of those bats with white nose

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Do die can you let go of my arm, please there? We go. Thank you. Tell me a secret

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I wish you guys could feel

00:06:54,700 --> 00:07:00,000 身為蝙蝠生活在群體之中，可能是一件非常危險的事，因為他們有階級制度

How it feels to have a bat sniffing your ear when they smell it actually vibrates really far deep inside your ear it almost feels

像是比較大隻的雄性蝙蝠

Like there's a moth like right there just buzzing around yes, hello

他們可以優先選擇要跟誰生小孩 如果是雌性或階級很低的蝙蝠，就會被其他蝙蝠霸凌

Laughter

超 級 慘

You're too cute Kashi, I hope my lighting hasn't changed too much

牠們彼此都富有侵略性，當牠們發現群體之中有弱者的話 會想辦法把牠們趕走

I took the opportunity to go and get a little drinky drink of water

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Because it's good to stay hydrated, would you like to stay hydrated? Let me know oh you would. Yep I'm just gonna

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Guess that's his now *Laugh*

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As a bat living in a colony can be really dangerous because there is quite a straight hierarchy

00:07:31,570 --> 00:07:37,599 我知道這很難以接受，但是他們就是會一直霸凌其他蝙蝠 當牠們霸凌對方

You've always got the really big impressive males

或是爭吵以及糾紛時，會攻擊對方翅膀的皮膜 所幸這些皮膜很容易痊癒

And they get first choice of which females to breed with if you're a low ranking male or female you get bullied

有時候當牠們張開翅膀時，你會看見翅膀破破爛爛的

really really badly

它們都會自己再生並修復這些破洞

They're really aggressive to each other and if they sense any weakness in the group they try and stamp that out

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So if you are an outcast bat, or you're a low-ranking bat

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You actually sometimes have to crawl along the floor on your belly in order to get food because you'll get bullied out of the actual

00:08:08,570 --> 00:08:14,810 Kashmir 的叔叔 是英國活最久的蝙蝠

good ripe fruit

牠當時去世時大約41歲，牠叫做 Eric

Yes, I know. No you're a bit of a bully aren't you Kashmir's a bit of a bully

可惜的是，在我的工作環境並沒有記錄佐證

It's hard to believe but he does bully the other bats a little bit in fact sometimes when bats are bullying each other and having

但他們真的能活得很久很久 你可能聽過一個流言：蝙蝠都是瞎子

Squabbles and scraps and they can tear this skin membrane on the side here luckily that skin membrane is very fast

Kashmir 其實沒瞎，而其他蝙蝠也同樣不是瞎子

Healing so sometimes you can see bats and when they extend their wing you can see that that wing is

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actually

牠有著靈敏的嗅覺，但聽覺其實才是他的強項 牠會動耳朵聽取四周一切的聲音

Torn that will regenerate itself in most cases of course where these bats live there's lots of water around as well lots of lakes

感謝你們的收看

Lots of rivers and often they will fall into the water by accident, however. They can swim, fairly well

希望你們享受這段時光

It doesn't look particularly graceful

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It looks like the butterfly

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But they can paddle themselves back to shore now Kashmir's uncle was one of the oldest living bats in Britain

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He was about 41 years old when he passed away and his name was Eric

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Unfortunately the place I used to work at don't have any official documents to prove it

聽起來是吃的

But they are a very very long-lived animal in captivity you may have also heard of that term as blind as a bat

我可以吃一點嗎?

Kashmir is certainly not blind and many bat species aren't blind and there are so many

Different species in fact a quarter of all the mammals in the world are bat species so that is a lot of different bat species

Kashmir's eyesight is decent

He's got a great nose, but his best sense is his sense of hearing those ears are constantly twitching around he can hear everything

Thank you guys so much for watching

I hope that you enjoyed meeting

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*Kissy sounds*

He's pulling away, I'm getting denied here. Ha stole it. someone's at my door

*Door sounds*

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