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Jul. 6, 2009
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...
A bat?
After church yesterday evening, we were all outside talking. And this swarm of odd-looking "birds" were flying around above our heads. They were flapping their wings rather oddly, and they were flying really low. "Huh, strange birds," I thought. Then, suddenly Mom said, "Oh, look at the bats!" My mom has some weird fascination with bats--she thinks they're uber-cool, and that's not solely because the eat mosquitos. Actually, she's even bought a "bat house," although we haven't hung it up yet. And I have some weird fear of bats. Bats aren't as bad as spiders, but they're still pretty creepy.
I think this fear may have originated when we watched an episode of some doctor show thing. The sick lady on the show had some mysterious disease. Finally, the doctors figured out that she had rabies, which she had somehow acquired from a bat. And I also once read part of some book on animals that said bats were the animals with the largest percent of rabies-infected population. OK, so the percentage of rabies in bats was something miniscule, like 3% or 6% or something. But, still, say we saw around ten bats at church. That's a .3 or .6 percent chance that one of those bats had rabies! Yeah, really enormous chance, I know. But, hey, .6 % is .6%. And it wasn't dark yet, either. Bats are nocturnal. So, maybe the ones we saw were really a lone population of rabid bats!
Still, despite the rabies thing, the bats actually were kind of neat. Here's a picture. (No, I didn't take it, I got it from freestockphotos.com.)
The bat looks pretty dead to me, but apparently it's "sleeping." |
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Jul. 6, 2009 - Untitled Comment
I'm glad you liked the book recommendations. It is terribly hard to find good books! I hope those were helpful. :D