Follow
#TruthBeTold #microscope #hair #animals #SizeMatters #Words #relativity
The truth is...
The Bubblebee bat is the smallest mammal, smaller than the length of a human hair.
- - -
#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
(image CC-BY-SA-3.0, Momotarou2012, mediawiki commons, modified)
**** TruthBeTold Spoiler ****
**** TruthBeTold Spoiler ****
This one is 100% true…
The image shows a specimen of the brown Bubblebee bat with its wings spread out in a simulated microscope field next to a diagram of the cross-section of a human hair. This is absurd, of course, a hairy mammal smaller than the width of a single hair itself?
But the words of the TBT say, “length” of a human hair, not “width” of a human hair. The bat is actually a bit over an inch long (~30cm).
This bat species is the smallest bat and probably the smallest mammal species.