STOP EVERYTHING – and watch this cute bat munching on melon

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 13th, 2019

If you’re in the “bats are creepy” camp, we defy you to watch this video of a flying fox, also known as a fruit bat, being hand-fed a big chunk of watermelon, then tell us it isn’t cute.

Just a bat eating watermelon… pic.twitter.com/zYfN1mc4kU

— Atusa Fathi C-137 🦕 (@_PerziaN_) August 10, 2019

Atusa Fathi C137‘s video has been retweeted more than 40,000 times in a couple of days, picking up admiring responses like these:

In case you guys have had a mediocre sunday here's a sky doggo being a good boi and eating some watermeloooonnneee https://t.co/6I5E1krXQY

— Tay Aziz 🇪🇺 (@tayaziz_) August 11, 2019

This should help you all to return to a calmer state. Who needs Stoicism when you can have a bat eating watermelon. Who needs anything at al, other than the bat eating watermelon. https://t.co/a6C6FWbNam

— Aaron Garrett (@AaronGarrett2) August 11, 2019

I can’t believe I never knew bats were this cute! 😻

— Kelly Sovacool (@kelly_sovacool) August 11, 2019

Actor, Helen Ayres shared a similar clip, this time of fruit bat, Hope, chomping on a banana like there’s no tomorrow.

This is Hope, a 13-week-old bat.
She certainly loves her banana – just look at the amount she packs in! ☺️

Recuperating after two predator attacks, quite underweight, then flying into a parked car. 🦇 pic.twitter.com/A3tmcIVqQr

— helen ayres (@Raphaelite_Girl) September 9, 2018

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