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Bats Are the Puppies of the Sky
There’s no reason to fear these incredible and adorable beings who are irreplaceable in maintaining local ecosystems
Last summer, my roommate nudged me from a deep sleep.
“Kat?” she tried. I sat up, breathing hard. “There’s a bat? In our house?”
Sure enough, there was a bat doing laps around the living room. Every once in a while it would land on the huge mirror hanging above our fireplace, which gave us the opportunity to see its little face. It was almost certainly a little brown bat, and its expression seemed to say, “Forget y’all, and forget this.”
Unfortunately, our third roommate, a biologist who has actually studied bats in the field, was not home. We were left to our own devices. It took some hasty Googling, some light screaming, and some strategic door-opening and -closing, but we managed to get the bat out through the back kitchen.
Without bats, we would have no mangos, no bananas, and no tequila.
Our situation was not unique. Judging by the sheer number of articles that come up when one googles “bat in house what do I do,” many, many people have suddenly come in closer proximity to a…
