They are serious about this beauty.
A bat from Oregon named William ShakespEAR won a nationwide beauty contest for winged mammals.
A female Townsend’s big-eared bat won an annual competition organized by the federal Bureau of Land Management, part of the Department of the Interior, which oversees one in every 10 acres of land in the US, including most of the Western states, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
The prized creature, which hails from Butte Falls in Jackson County, was chosen as the winner by social media users, who voted on photos of different bat species taken on public lands across the country.
He was photographed by BLM wildlife technician Emma Busk in Jackson County, which is home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Townsend’s big-eared bats are famous for their large ears, which measure about half the length of their bodies, making the animal’s last name “ShakespEAR” appropriate.
Social media users vote for the winner. Instagram/mypubliclands
The contest, which began on Oct. 24. and ends, appropriately, on Halloween, coinciding with International Bat Week, in an effort to raise awareness for bat conservation.
Last year, Barbara, a canyon bat from Lake County, Oregon, took home the title, making the state two consecutive winners.
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