Official Bat Thread

[Longhorned]

Just now there was a bat inside my house. WTF? I was watching TV with the family and he flies right into the living room, sonar-senses us, and turns around and flies all over the house like a freaked out flying ape. I opened the front door and tried to convince him that was his ticket back to the world. Finally my wife turned off the porch light, and I guess that convinced him, because out he flew.

[azgreg]

We have a bat thread now? Reminds me, I've been wanting to go down to the flood control tunnel near 40th Street and Camelback.

[Chicat]

I wish we had bats. They’d eat the mosquitoes.

[scumdevils86]

I love seeing all the bats right as the sun sets. I live close to the Cañada del Oro wash and I'm pretty sure a bunch of bats live in those under the overpasses. I always see them swooping low over my pool when I'm out there as the sun goes down. Makes me love the desert.

As a side note, I really enjoy my backyard. I get all kinds of birds: owls, woodpeckers, cardinals, finches, flycatchers, roadrunners, quail, hawks, falcons etc. I've also identified about 4 species of lizards and now got roped into feeding a new family of rock squirrels that plays every afternoon in my lemon and lime trees.

[Longhorned]

Apparently biologists have to keep changing the definition of "primate" to keep bats out of the order. And most bat specialists regard bats as primates.

They're little, blind, flying monkeys.

[Chicat]

Who you calling little?

Behold the Giant Golden Flying Fox…