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Old 05-09-2013, 16:55
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I was reading this article on the BBC new site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-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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Old 05-09-2013, 16:56
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They're cute
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Old 05-09-2013, 16:57
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they can't help their looks

ugly beautiful
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Old 05-09-2013, 16:58
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Not at all, I like bats. Fascinating creatures.
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Old 05-09-2013, 16:59
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We have loads round here and I love them.
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Old 05-09-2013, 16:59
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Op - I'm surprised you're so squeamish with your current abode being 'Hell' .
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:05
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Op - I'm surprised you're so squeamish with your current abode being 'Hell' .
I just don't like at them too closely

Look at this photo of a vampire bat:

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...05_600x450.jpg

It's really hideous! Nearly all other mammals are quite cute (human babies excepted).
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:07
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I was reading this article on the BBC new site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-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.
Don't look at them close up or even close up photos, sorted
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:08
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Ugly beautiful as Hobbit said. Like French Bulldogs which I have a bit of a thing about.

Bats are fascinating, so cute from a distance, so ugly close up I would love the opportunity to handle one.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:09
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No, not at all. We have a colony of Pipistrelles in an old barn and quite often sit out of an evening and watch them flitting around catching moths and other insects.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:12
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No, not at all. We have a colony of Pipistrelles in an old barn and quite often sit out of an evening and watch them flitting around catching moths and other insects.
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.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:13
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I just don't like at them too closely

Look at this photo of a vampire bat:

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...05_600x450.jpg

It's really hideous! Nearly all other mammals are quite cute (human babies excepted).
Granted - close up they do look a bit grim

Pipistrelles and other domestics can look kinda cute .
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:14
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Bats are so adorable! Like little Fuzzy Wuzzies
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:15
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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.
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.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:16
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Granted - close up they do look a bit grim

Pipistrelles and other domestics can look kinda cute .
Yes, grim. Sort of half-mammal, half-insect. I just find it strange that a mammal can be so unappealing.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:16
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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.
Well my great-aunt reckoned she had one fly into her hair when she was a young girl.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:18
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Yes, grim. Sort of half-mammal, half-insect. I just find it strange that a mammal can be so unappealing.
You ever seen Nigella Lawson, Susan Boyle and that heifer family from Britain's got the X-Factor Talent on Ice?
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:18
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I just don't like at them too closely

Look at this photo of a vampire bat:

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...05_600x450.jpg

It's really hideous! Nearly all other mammals are quite cute (human babies excepted).
I still think it's kinda cute... I love seeing bats swooping around.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:21
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Wonderful creatures, I don't find them ugly or repulsive, they are fascinating IMO
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:24
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They ain't pretty - it's true.

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Old 05-09-2013, 17:24
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Some of them have rabies in this country so I would steer well clear.

A man from Scotland died of rabies from being bitten by one a couple of years ago
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:25
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You ever seen Nigella Lawson, Susan Boyle and that heifer family from Britain's got the X-Factor Talent on Ice?
Fair comment

I still think it's kinda cute... I love seeing bats swooping around.
No, surely it's not 'cute'.

This is cute:

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/pi...ker-basket.jpg
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:26
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They're all right with chips.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:26
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i love them.
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Old 05-09-2013, 17:27
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Just Google images for 'bat'. My god, honestly some of them are making me feel like retching.
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