it's freakin bats... I love halloween
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- embarking on a quest to see 2 million little bats... trying to at least.
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Video Credits:
if you're here before I've filled this list then hello I'm still gathering the links and sources. Description will be updated soon :)
Chapters:
0:00 - intro
0:27 - day 1
0:38 - maya gets lost in the city for once
0:50 - oh no
1:22 - not late at all Clueless
1:36 - fun bat fact
1:56 - surely the bats are late not me
2:35 - day 2
3:15 - why you should I care about bats (except zubat frick you zubat my repel just ran out)
4:43 - it's almost time
5:00 - more fun bat facts
5:40 - the duck mob
5:47 - it's almost time part 2
6:06 - the duck mob part 2
6:16 - BATS
9:40 - success
10:08 - outro
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I want Maya to make a list of these cool animal migration events for all the cities in America so I can go see some in person.
or actually actually make IRL trip videos for some of them
seconded
third@@emily-tg8wk
Honestly be great! There is a many in the states, and would be such a cool idea. I have an adventure map made with a multitude of them. Hope to do a road trip one day of those that over lap time wise'!
Oh that's actually such a good idea. I saw the bats in person a couple years ago and it was awesome, I would definitely go to more of this kinda thing
"'Ask the people behind you,' I'd rather die." She's just like me frfr
There's nothing quite like watching a colony of bats fly by. in Australia we have mega bats, which are HUGE. Very magical to watch then flying together as the sun goes down.
Are they actually called mega bats? 😂 Either way this sounds amazing 💛🦇
Kinda unrelated, but at 5:54 - 10 grams is 1/45th of a pound, so a bit more than 1/50th of a pound.
@@someguy2744 Yeah I dunno I think I'm just gonna go with 10 grams
@@Emma-Maze We call them flying-foxes because, err, Australians are weird. They are classified as a type of megabat but not the biggest megabat. Australian flying-foxes weigh 600g - 1.2kg. Around 1.3lb to 2.6lb for those who still use weird caveman measurement systems.
Amazing editing, great video. We love bats
Of course we fricken do
Yeah, I laughed like 3 times and I am only 40 seconds into this video. Whoever edited this has upped their game. good job.
"Just ask"
Her: "To be honest, I'd rather die."
That's a whole mood
hope you all know what that a genuine favorite part of my week is watching maya and alveus. as an aspiring vet technician and animal rights activist your information, education, dedication, and conversation of wild animals means so much and teaches me even more. and at the same time, a hilarious owner/host in maya that balances jokes and education perfectly that I believe you’re getting through to a wider audience. hope y’all see this, thanks so much for all you do!
this extremely well-edited, well-filmed, and well-informed vid reminded me of all that!
watching so many people gather just to witness bats going on their nightly snack run is SO good. i love that.
I could listen to Maya talk about animals all day every day.
Animal youtube is a huge sect of the internet and I need more of Maya telling me about animals
Austin is so nature-friendly!! Highly recommend supporting the Austin Bat Refuge, I did a video there once and they are the nicest people and are the only bat rescue within hundreds of miles of Austin! 🦇 they keep busy!
Yeah!
So much variety here. I never expected it. I've seen bats, ringtailed cats, snakes, coyotes, turtles, snakes, deer, scorpions, tarantulas, and all kinds of reptiles all while walking my dog around the arboretum area
Bats are so adorable
Then why is your pfp a sloth????? You have to PICK ONE 😡
@@ffreeze9924how's your day been
I'm so happy the ducks made the edit. They were doing work keeping us entertained during the wait.
Thanks for showing us these cool bats! I'm too many miles away to come see them otherwise, so this was neat. And my favorite cookie is the sugar cookies my grandma made for Halloween when I was a kid.
It’s freaking bats! Cute and helpful! Thank you for sharing a beautiful moment!
At first I was thinking “No way 2 million bats could all fit under that one bridge..” until they didn’t stop coming for so long 😭 truly amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us!
I remember way back in school we had a lot of focus on bats in science, they really are so important and sadly misunderstood
I never had anything against bats, but I never knew they were THIS interesting. You're bringing love to the bats, they got a new fan!
As an animal lover, thank you for this video!
"Just ask"
"I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather die."
That's a heckin mood right there
I like how calm bats are, despite their flying animation. my favorite cookie is oreos dipped in milk, see ya maya thanks for another super educational and fun adventure!!
I love when Maya goes to the city or goes shopping or anything real wordly. It's like the hermit is coming down the mountain and has to interact with people. Off-site Maya is the best Maya.
omg I never knew this was a thing- another amazing animal migration to add to my bucket list
Super cool didn't know how much they help the environment, thanks Maya! They're really cute.
I almost CRIED when the bats flew out omg the music made it so beautiful! I get so teary eyed seeing things like this in nature and Maya's passion and love for not just this event, but everything to do with nature/animals is so fucking amazing. Just wanna say thank you Maya for everything you do and educating us while also letting us live vicariously through you
I love Maya's videos! It's freakin bats!!!!
I like bat shaped frosted sugar cookies that look like bats. They taste great, like processed sugar, and they look like bats.
Thanks for giving love to the bats! And telling me about the Bacardi™️🦇logo®️.
There's a long underpass in my city w/a pretty large colony.
Now I vant to drink some rum🧛🏽♂️
Happy Hall🎃ween!
Why does this comment seem sponsored lol
@@johnbishop9621 🤗sponsored by vespertilian rum drinkers🤫
Her Bacardi logo explanation is WRONG!!!
Facundo's wife, Doña Amalia noticed a colony of fruit bats hanging in the rafters of the distillery and recognizes their importance to the Spanish and Cuban Taíno Indians as symbols of good health, family unity, and good fortune.
Plus my good friend's dad was the VP of Bacardi in Mexico. Glad I could correct you
Another cool fact about the bat colony in Austin is that its primarily a maternal colony! When they migrate in the winter they have their mating season, and when they come back in the spring they have their pups' roughly around the time of spring break/SXSW (I used to work by the bridge, so I have some insider knowledge lol)
there are a couple of really cool non-profits along the river that do outreach programs/community cleanups, I highly recommend taking a kayak bat tour with one of them because they do awesome work educating people about the bats!
Do the bats go to SXSW?
Great and informative video Maya, what a spectacle. I love bats they are so freaking cute!
I have 1 single big brown bat living in my tree in my backyard and if we're out there in a certain time, we can see him flying above us and we can get like the clearest view of his wings and how they're spread out and the webbing of his wings. And when we walk around, he'll like swoop very close to us catching the bugs we kick up from the grass. I love bats, they're very interesting to look at and watch
I like to think that all these wittle bats know they have a big audience waiting to cheer them on every day 🦇👏
would be interesting to see maya travel to morelia, mexico to see the tons of monarch butterflies gathered in trees and flying through the air. never seen it in person but it looks so magical
As much as i hate Austin, they have some interesting wildlife there. Not only are the bats cool, but i never knew that Monk Parrots thrive there. I was installing some exhaust fans on a school rooftop one day and seen a whole bright green family. Id love to see if you could find some there, it was my first real sighting of an "exotic" bird.
That was really special :) Thanks so much for sharing that with us!
Also: chocolate chip.
I grew up in Austin and bat watching is a really old Austin tradition that feels pretty unique to it. Seeing them as a kid in the 90s they would literally blot out part of the sky.
Aweeeee hey, the tour on the water is my daughter and I! She comes to work with me while I do the bat tours! We call bat rain - getting blessed by the bats - 😂 we would love to take you on a bat tour one day!
I've found some Actias Luna (a large, pretty green moth) wings in my yard, thanks to the smol bats that live in the woods here in E. TN.
Except, I've never seen the whole, living mouth yet... lol
that was truly incredible.. can't imagine seeing that in person🦇
edit: oh.... and oatmeal raisin 🍪
Same:)
Extremely common bat W, I live near the middle of nowhere so I get to see bats, foxes, etc a lot
"Why don't you ask the other people on the bridge?"
"I'd rather die."
HEARD
Some of the facts during the stream really blew me away. I had no idea that they had such diversity. 6 foot wingspan and all the different snout shapes. It's freaking cool
0:44 Santa in the background has laid off too many cookies
It's amusing and sad that I have lived in Austin for almost 15 years, and have never gone to see the bats. i really need to. I also think the noise you were trying to describe is what little of their echolocation we can hear. I watching some bats flitting over/around a fountain pool near my job, and I could hear them making these little "click" kind of noises. Very faint, and only audible because it was so late at night and there was very little ambient noise to cover it up. It was really cool.
Used to be tons of bats in my Province growing up, would have them flying around every campfire and they'd get in the house from time to time but easy to catch. White nose syndrome has killed over 90% and there are very few left. Not a single one within 100km of me now.
There were bats near where I lived while I was in college. You could walk by a canal in the the evening and have bats fly overhead.
fun fact... You hardly ever see mosquitoes in Austin compared to Houston. I always thought that was bc of the bats.
Bats are such cool freaking animals
Edit: Those triple chocolate, diabetes in cookie form style of cookies are my favorite.
unreal the stress Maya gets in a store but can talk endlessly about bats in a crowd of people on the bridge
fun fact: Bats are actually not blind like people think. they have decently good eyesight but they developed echolocation specifically to help them hunt for prey. no other reasons.
(I am 3 min in)
Bats are awesome. So important for each ecosystem they're found in. Also, Halloween is awesome and I try to keep my love of the holiday going all year round in some way.
Why was this shot so beautifully…? Lol… It really looks like a movie scene about to happen..
That is way more bats than I could have ever expected
My favorite thing about bats is that they hang upside down and also do the chirpy chirpy! I also think it's cool how they're some of the few mammals capable of true flight, yet there are so many!
Really awesome! It almost looks surreal how the bats pour out for so long at such a high volume!
I live in San Antonio and a couple of weeks a go a bat got into our house (a tiny thing) and I kept trying to get it out without touching or harming it. Unfortunately my dad woke up and got rid of it and I was so sad that it was hurt/dead that I cried. Bats are just so amazing.
Bats are soooo CUTE!! this looks like such a great time thank you for sharing this experience. this reminds me of when i was a little kid going to carlsbad caverns and watching the bats all fly out of there. It was such an amazing thing to witness and i have loved bats ever since honestly.
I would watch a nat geo show of Maya going around the world teaching like this…I could watch an hour of this
Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies bats are great cause there mostly harmless and cute
“They shimmy up the crevices” 😂
Where I live, there's an enormous colony of grey-headed flying foxes, and at night they're just everywhere. I can hear them bitching about figs all night in a tree near my house. I love em!
Come to Maine during september- October and we have sturgeon jumping out of the water. Some get as big as 14 feet! They jump out of the water to communicate with other sturgeon. They used to be very endangered because people used them for their Cavier but since they were out in the endangered list and made illegal to catch they are making a huge come back. Pretty awesome to see when they come jumping out of the water 😊
This is crazy, I'm studying comparative psychology as one of my modules for psych at uni, and our group work is literally echolocation and bats! I love your videos Maya, and thank you for always giving us such great information :)
I'm so happy that I live near Austin, and now that I have my license, I can go over to watch it
humans are so cute, watching everyone marvel at a natural thing like bats just flying away made them so happy and they were all recording and were flabbergaster theyre so cute
what are you
a bat@@melody_BP
We had a conservationist come in my science class and give a presentation on little brown bats in my area and they had a film crew set up in the back because they were covering the story on our local news. Turns out the cameraman noticed I was extremely responsive during the whole thing and when the bell rang he pulled me aside and did a little interview. Fun surprise for my parents because my autistic ass forget to tell them💀
I'm over in Arizona and during monsoons after a heavy rain we used to sit out on our porch and watch our bats go after all the harvester ants coming up out of the ground. I can't remember being in a swarm, but yeah even on a smaller scale the sound their wings make is very subtle and distinct from feathers. It's how I'd identify them from the nighthawks we also had around.
Bats are just adorable and white chocolate chip cookies
I went on bat safaris as a child where we would listen to wild bats in nature and it was awesome!
1. Thanks Maya for sharing this.
2. There's something that gives me hope about people taking time out of their day to drive to a bridge and see bats fly. Maybe humanity is not yet lost after all.
3. I wonder if civil engineers add onto their safety factor the possibility of 2 million bats living under the bridge
Awww. The music and the incredible number of bats was so cool. Really awe-inspiring content. Glad these creatures exist. We truly need to protect them.
Interestingly bats are not blind, most have pretty sensitive vision evolved for low light conditions for obvious reasons. Not as broadly useful as our own but may surpass ours at dawn or dusk.
I love bats so much. Sometimes i see them fly past my window or above me while i walk through the park and i always get a little excited. Bats are great
That’s for sharing this event! And thank you for teaching about bats!
Thanks for sharing this with us Maya
What a cool event. Thanks for sharing it.
I always liked bats. I grew up in the countryside and the barns housed some bats that I could watch flapping around at dusk. But only ever a couple. Would love to see a swarm like this life.
I'm curious how they adapted to the sound of the traffic, I always thought bats are easily disturbed when asleep, and that much traffic seems like it would be a problem. I also wonder how and who counts the approximate bat numbers, 2 million tiny guys would be very hard to count.
every once in awhile i’ll see bats flying outside of my house at night, & it’s the coolest shit ever, i giggle like a child every time lol. i love bats. :)
Theres a song called Bats by the Uncluded (a collab between Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson) which is about waiting on this bridge to see a million bats fly out as a way to grieve dead friends (more specifically the rapper Eyedea) and even though they ended up only seeing a few, they could still find peace with it.
Knowing that song makes this imagery that much more magical for me. Guess they would have had better luck showing up earlier though lol
lovely video
This was very cool. Thank you for sharing the experience!
Thank you for sharing this with us.
such a trip finding your channel! lets go! bats!
That was Awesome! Thank you for helping us experience this!
I have been wanting to see this! Thank you!!🦇🦇🦇❤❤❤
I love those videos so much!
I love these videos! Interesting and informative content, great editing, and well shot! I especially love the humor injected through editing (and chapter names lol)
so happy i watched this cute little video. love ur work maya
This was amazing to see
Great editing, loved the video. Good stuff
these field trips are so fun! thanks
Loved this stream and I really have been loving the edits
This was really cool to watch! Definitely adding it as a sight to see if I ever travel to Austin.
such a great video thank you!
Super fun editing!
This was really friggin cool!
have now officially watched all uploaded versions of this bat trip NO REGRETS so cool every time
Love that city and this was a great video. Thanks for posting.
This was amazing to watch, specially your raw emotion about the event, and as always, the superb editing!
Best content on the app! great video Maya!
I love how much you know about bats, and you're super excited to tell us about them. Please, never lose your passion.
I took one of those bat tour boats when I visited Austin. Was awesome seeing them all fly out!
That was awesome and I was so sad I missed Day 2 live stream. So glad it happened!
Bats have always been my favorite animal so this video was so much fun to watch, keep up the great work Maya!
This video genuinely made me shed a tear. What a beautiful sight, seeing the bats streaming out into the sky whilst the sun sets over the city. Also a good music choice. Thanks for sharing :)