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        "title": "Big-Eared Brown Bat Vessel",
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        "description": "This bat, perhaps shown opening its wings before taking flight, illustrates Moche artists\u2019 keen interest in realism and in capturing activity at its peak. Moche bat symbolism may be linked to the animal\u2019s paradoxical traits\u2014for instance, bats fly but have fur rather than feathers. Such traits may have caused the Moche to link bats with transitional states, such as the passage between life and death. The vessel depicts a member of the <em>Histiotus mochica </em>species<em>,</em> a big-eared brown bat that researchers described in 2021 and, due to this vessel, named in honor of the Moche, also known as the Mochica.",
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