Could You Be Sharing Your House With Bats?
There are no mammals other than bats that can fly. Some other mammals can glide, but no others actually fly. Most bats eat insects, while others eat fruit. Bats help pollinate tropical flowers and spread fruit seeds around so new plants can grow. There are humane and effective means by which to rid your house of bats should you discover yourself with a bat infestation.
You’ve probably heard the term, “Blind as a bat”, but the truth is that, while their eyesight is not the best, bats are not blind. Bats use echolocation much as we use our eyes only instead of gathering and interpreting light, bats gather and interpret sound to give them a map of their surroundings.
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A couple of the horror stories are true. For example, vampire bats really do drink the blood of mammals and also birds, though this does not, of course, mean they are vampires. A bat will skim the surface of a body of water to collect one single drop of water, then repeat this process until its thirst has been quenched. Besides spreading fruit seeds and pollinating flowers, bats produce nutrient rich guano that can be used to fertilize farmer’s fields.
A bat bite can carry SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), the Nepah and Hendra virus, and of course rabies. Though cases of rabies from animal bites are quite few in the United States, most of them do come from dogs and bats.
A bat who has rabies is very ill, and may not understand what is happening. Due to the small size of their teeth, a bat bite can actually go unnoticed by someone who is sleeping at the time, or drunk from alcohol.
If a bat flutters into your home, try not to panic, and to open a window away from people inside the house. The bat should leave. In the case of a family of bats infesting your home, you should call a professional and not attempt to deal with the problem yourself.