If you ever feared bats as blood-sucking night lurkers, then strap on your seatbelt and prepare for these photos of adorable bats who just want to change ...

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This is the ghost bat (macroderma gigas) from Australia. It's a carnivore bat which feeds on small animals like mice, other bats, birds, lizards, geckos etc. and also eats insects.

Taronga Zoo is celebrating its first successful birth of a ghost bat pup in 15 years.

Take a look at the ghostly white creatures in these photos.

Ghost Bat Pup

A ghost bat in the Nocturnal House at Perth Zoo

Merlin went to Costa Rica last week, with hopes to photograph a Northern ghost bats (Diclidurus albus) roosting beneath a palm frond.

Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the ghost bat wouldn’t hurt a fly, but inside that cute little head are some formidable chompers.