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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. |
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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. that has just reminded me when I lived in nurses flats many years ago I found a mummified bat in my boots, must have been there all summer. |
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There's this old bat that i know who i find.....
......oh, wrong kind of bat. |
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Just Google images for 'bat'. My god, honestly some of them are making me feel like retching
Emphasis of course on the word "Some"...Some varieties are not attractive....but some are beautiful little creatures. We fostered a Leisler's Bat for eight years a long time ago now.....and it was just like a tiny little dog with wings! Crimped hair 'an all... |
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I think they are fascinating creatures.
We get one (very occasionally, two) flying around our windows most evenings. It gets really close, so we keep the windows closed to prevent it from flying in. |
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that has just reminded me when I lived in nurses flats many years ago I found a mummified bat in my boots, must have been there all summer. ![]() But in general, bats are cool. Little furry flying mice, we've got loads. Since they never come near people, and you hardly ever see their faces, their ugliness, or otherwise, is hardly an issue. A fascinating, highly specialised and adapted animal. |
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I like them ~I used to often see many small bats flying~up and around my garden during the evenings~In Liverpool UK
In Sydney in a place called "Taylor Square" which is a very noisy busy main road junction ~~on the way to Paddington and Bondi etc There were hundreds of HUGE Fruit bats up in the air~in the evenings above all the noisy traffic ~When they were not flying about ~ you'd see them all together side by side~where they all lived , all hanging upside down from the many trees~near the couthouse |
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I like them ~I used to often see many of them flying around my garden during the evenings
In Sydney in a place called Taylor Square on the way top Bondi~at a big busy main road junction~there were hundreds of HUGE Fruit bats up in the air~or else you see them hanging upside down from the many trees~near the couthouse Love them. Come to think of it, I may be a bit of a bat enthusiast.
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Not at all, I like bats. Fascinating creatures.
It was tiny and seriously cute. |
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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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I think they're sweet, like mice with wings.
I've never forgiven myself for inadvertently decapitating one Driving over the brow of a hill at dusk it came out of nowhere and impaled itself on my windscreen wiper... I had to drive another 5 miles with it staring bleakly at me. Thankfully it wasn't raining
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I love them! Especially when they're eating their own body-weight in mosquitoes every summer night
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I do, I'd much rather have a shower than sit in a bath of one's own filth.
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Love them. Am I right in thinking a FM had a thread once regarding a bat crawling across their living room floor? Maybe I just made that bit up.
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I love them. Kapplemeister; you'd have enjoyed the church I visited in a village in Essex, recently - it was so infested with bats inside, they had to cover everything up with plastic sheeting to protect from the bat poo everywhere - not just confined to the tower but the entire church made unusable by bats!
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I love them. Kapplemeister; you'd have enjoyed the church I visited in a village in Essex, recently - it was so infested with bats inside, they had to cover everything up with plastic sheeting to protect from the bat poo everywhere - not just confined to the tower but the entire church made unusable by bats!
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I've got them in the cellar. Rather fond of them, to my own surprise.
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They are really ugly - especially their nazgul like veiny wings. Yuk.
Even worse when you can't get planning because the pests have decided to set up home in your loft or whatever. There's a church somewhere that can't have services anymore due to the volume of bat shit and piss being rained down inside the church making it stink and unhygienic. They've even had to pay to try and coax the bats into a different nest in a nearby abandoned shed, without success. I'd gas the bloody lot. Endangered my arse. They're everywhere. |
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Eta: Hogzilla has explained about the church in question.
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How cute is this fellow.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news...bat787.html#cr |
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How cute is this fellow.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news...bat787.html#cr |
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It looks evil.
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Yes. But the music to 'Die Fledermaus' doesn't summon up the squeezed, demonic features of a bat!
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There's no helping you then. Never mind, you don't come face to face with a bat very often.
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I've never forgiven myself for inadvertently decapitating one
Driving over the brow of a hill at dusk it came out of nowhere and impaled itself on my windscreen wiper... I had to drive another 5 miles with it staring bleakly at me. Thankfully it wasn't raining