Do you think bats are scary? Perhap they’re a flying terror you associate with Halloween? These 8 pictures of bats might give you an alternative view.
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What do you think now? Are bats scary?
Pictures via e-praksina.
Are bats scary? What about baby bats with hiccups?
Are you scared of bats? Some people certainly are. Other people are worried about the diseases that bats are believed to carry.
That said; I’ll be surprised if anyone is too terrified by the video above. Sure, Jim loses a glove in his attempt to rescure the bat, and that might be scary to some fashion fans – but that’s about the extent of the horror.
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Did you know bats are not blind? They have poor eyesight but in lab tests bats have shown the ability to see shapes and colours. An even bigger myth is that bats easily become entangled in long hair – this would require the bat, with its advanced echo-style sonar, to decide to fly at your head.
Hundreds of bats infect roof
A home in South Florida had some sort of problem with their roof so they called in the roofers.
Imagine your surprise when hundreds of bats start to flood out from the roof space as the first of the tiles were pulled off.
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Do you like bats? Are they cute or creepy?
Feeding Lil’ Drac
Lil’ Drac is not the child of Dracula. Instead, this story could be a sad one – a zoo is forced to close, the animals are forced to move and the trauma resulted in Lil’ Drac, a tiny baby bat, being abandoned by his mother.
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What do you think? Is this a good example of zoos spending money wisely?
