Bats are one of my favorite creatures, the recent bad publicity they've gotten reminded me of this.
So yeah. Chiropteran wings require extremely low body mass/wing area to be functional (though all wings do). They're also basically gigantic hands webbed between all the phalanges and also from the pinky to the ankle. They would also need to be, like 10 meters wide tip to tip. Bat wings imply quite a lot about the remainder of the creature's anatomy, like it has short, near vestigial legs.
This leads right into another, separate issue. The fact that you state "bipedal hircine creatures that exhibit numerous deviations from non-anomalous goats" is a bit ridiculous, as goats aren't bipedal in the first place.
All in all, you use scientific terminology to elevate the clinical tone of the article, but you use it wrong. To someone who understands (or looks up) what those words mean, the creature goes from scary to comical, or just plain unbelievable. Personally, bats are awesome and if you're going to use their physiology in an SCP article, use it right.
@ edna, SCP articles are supposed to be written by scientists. Asking that they use the correct terminology, or qualify it, is not pretentious.
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