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Why you should vote for the Hoary bat: a thread.
What small mammal can be found in Canada, Hawaii, Bermuda, Iceland, Chile, & Scotland's Orkney Islands? That's right, it's this fluffy little powdered donut, bc underneath that floof & frosted tips is a tenacious, remarkable bat.
Hoary bats are a migratory species, & travel some of the longest distances of any bat. In fact, they are the only bats- and the only extant, native terrestrial mammal- found in Hawai'i, having flown more than 2,236mi (3,600km) over the Pacific Ocean over 10,000 years ago.
They accomplished this TWICE, migrating in 2 different waves 9,000 years apart. Thanks to their incredible endurance and determination, the Hawaiian subspecies, the ʻōpeʻapeʻa, has officially been named Hawai'i's state land mammal.
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