Aerin said:
I would like to use a bat for one of my cards if that is OK - I mean, it is a mouse with wings isn't it?
Aerin
Oh dear.
The following is going to make me very unpopular; I feel it in my bones.
Mice are in the Order Rodentia. Your typical mouse belongs to the family Muridae, genus mus. Fairly straightforward.
Bats are waaay over somewhere else, in the order Chiroptera, which roughly translates to "hand-wing"'and is unrelated to mice.
One might make a weak case for the mouse-eared bat (Myotis sp.) or the mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopomatidae sp.). But then might I be forced to sanction the mouse deer from the family Tragulidae (a primitive ruminant mammal unchanged in 5 million years) just because its common name so closely resembles that of Peromyscus sp., the deer mouse?
There's a whole bunch of marsupials that resemble mice, too, But they have tummy pouches. And they're not rodents.
And what about wings in general? If we make the jump to wings on a mouse, why not allow wings in general?
Bats are not, in fact, mice.
A mouse wearing a bat costume would be acceptable.
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