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Do you find bats repulsive?
Kapellmeister
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I was reading this article on the BBC new site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23973127
It made me think how unattractive bats are when seen in close-up. I don't mind them when they're swooping around the garden at dusk but they're horrible when you really look at them. Horrible pointed rat teeth, weird eyes and snouts, and when they drag themselves across the ground on their clawed wings... *shudder*
It's hard to think of them as being mammals. They're amazing creatures but I don't really like them that much.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23973127
It made me think how unattractive bats are when seen in close-up. I don't mind them when they're swooping around the garden at dusk but they're horrible when you really look at them. Horrible pointed rat teeth, weird eyes and snouts, and when they drag themselves across the ground on their clawed wings... *shudder*
It's hard to think of them as being mammals. They're amazing creatures but I don't really like them that much.
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ugly beautiful
I just don't like at them too closely
Look at this photo of a vampire bat:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/005/cache/common-vampire-bat_505_600x450.jpg
It's really hideous! Nearly all other mammals are quite cute (human babies excepted).
Don't look at them close up or even close up photos, sorted
Bats are fascinating, so cute from a distance, so ugly close up I would love the opportunity to handle one.
As I said in the OP, I too like watching them flitting around in the garden. I'd hate to have one land on me, with its chattering teeth.
Granted - close up they do look a bit grim
Pipistrelles and other domestics can look kinda cute .
They'd never land on you, they have sonar and would stay well away. Only vampire bats would want to land on you and we don't have them over here, thank goodness.
Yes, grim. Sort of half-mammal, half-insect. I just find it strange that a mammal can be so unappealing.
Well my great-aunt reckoned she had one fly into her hair when she was a young girl.
You ever seen Nigella Lawson, Susan Boyle and that heifer family from Britain's got the X-Factor Talent on Ice?
I still think it's kinda cute... I love seeing bats swooping around.
eta: Actually, Batman looks nothing like a bat really ....
A man from Scotland died of rabies from being bitten by one a couple of years ago
Fair comment
No, surely it's not 'cute'.
This is cute:
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/pitrs/pitrs1203/pitrs120300087/12853959-golden-retriever-puppy-in-a-wicker-basket.jpg
I was in India visiting distant relatives when I was very little. We were in a building somewhere. A bat flew in, hit the fan, was stunned, and fell straight into my mum's lap. (Of all people, this could only happen to my mother.)
I remember howling because I thought the bat was dead. It was fine, just stunned.
Ever since then I've had a soft spot for bats.