Spoiler Alert: Images Of Cute Baby Albino Bat Turns Out To Be Of Soft Toys, Netizens Left Heartbroken
People on the internet have found out that baby albino bats pictures surfacing on social media are actually pictures of a soft toy.
Animals can be the cutest creatures on the planet. But any animal which is still in their nascent years appears a thousand times cuter. And this, we don't need to prove it. Just think about puppies, kittens, baby bears, even little mice seem cute when they are babies.
So, the internet suddenly found out images of another animal (bats) that no one would've ever thought would seem cute (especially after the coronavirus pandemic).
But the internet found images of baby albino bats and animal lovers couldn't help but shower all of their attention on this adorable being.
With their big round eyes, little pink ears and fluffy body, the ¡®albino bat¡¯ appears as a picture-perfect creature in every post it is featured in. In the pictures, the albino can apparently be seen clinging to a human¡¯s hand, spreading its wings and even offering up a little cuddle.
How can one resist this cuddly little animal? Many shared pictures of the same saying how adorable they are and how much they want one.
Just want a baby albino bat IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK!? pic.twitter.com/4PuU3Jb0UF
¡ª Anton (@MawdsPaws) May 24, 2021
Albino baby bat. . ??
¡ª Monali Buch Mankad (@Monali2177) July 1, 2020
??
This is so cuteeee ? pic.twitter.com/tg6lMwr9WE
HOW IS THIS BABY ALBINO BAT REAL??? I¡¯m still not convinced... pic.twitter.com/JGDp89WZIv
¡ª meerku???¡â? (@meerkucumber) May 24, 2021
However, these cuddly little soft toy looking bats were actually too good to be true. Turned out, they are not real. That's right! After many started sharing pictures of these "rare albino bats," fact-checkers kind of got suspicious and found out that they are not real.
Fact-checkers with the help of reverse image search found out on Africa Check that the apparent snaps actually showed a toy called the baby albino vampire plushie, which had simply been posed in different positions for the viral photos.
Pictures of a woman appearing to hold a rare, baby albino bat have been shared hundreds of thousands of times online
¡ª AFP Fact Check ? (@AFPFactCheck) June 3, 2021
Sorry to spoil the fun, but it's a stuffed toy ? https://t.co/vvK55pMgNT pic.twitter.com/AriJhb4fsv
The description added, "The wings can be left straight out, or folded to pose the bat in a more upright position. The wings are not stiff but can be used to pose the bat.¡±
Even though the pictures being shared on the internet are not real, there actually are two species of pure bats in South America. The first one is the Honduran White Bat also called the Caribbean white tent-making bat, which is a member of the genus Ectophylla. The other white bat is the Northern Ghost Bat, a species that is native to South America, Trinidad, and Central America.
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