She lives about two hours away from me. I remember seeing an article in our local paper not long ago.
My father's had to deal with bats a couple of times, mostly trying to keep people from annoying them. he's a park ranger for the Girl Scouts, and every year, they end up with one of the a-frame tent having a colony of little brown bats roosting in the top. So they cordon it off and try to keep the kids from bothering the bats. They'll sometimes let the bigger kids go in and peer at them so long as they're quiet, but generally try not to disturb them since they keep the bugs down.
They're really cute. They look like kiwi fruit with wrinkly little faces and constantly twitching ears. They don't seem to be terribly concerned about people looking at them, but screaming elementary students going "LOOKIT THE BAT!!!" is a bit much for the poor little critters. every now and then someone will raise a stink that they should relocate the bats since they could be rabid, but the rangers generally ignore that. The camp they roost at is only used on weekend from about May to October, so the bats got dibs on their tent. Campers will go away before the bats do.
It's funny how people don't understand that the bats were there first.
The majority on my rescues are "There's a BAT in my house! GET IT OUT!" rescue/relocate, but sometimes I get an injured one, like my current bat.
I'm not allowed by law to keep them, so the unreleasable animals have to be put down. Here in Australia there are no organizations that specialize in captive bat care, just a bunch of people like me.
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My father's had to deal with bats a couple of times, mostly trying to keep people from annoying them. he's a park ranger for the Girl Scouts, and every year, they end up with one of the a-frame tent having a colony of little brown bats roosting in the top. So they cordon it off and try to keep the kids from bothering the bats. They'll sometimes let the bigger kids go in and peer at them so long as they're quiet, but generally try not to disturb them since they keep the bugs down.
They're really cute. They look like kiwi fruit with wrinkly little faces and constantly twitching ears. They don't seem to be terribly concerned about people looking at them, but screaming elementary students going "LOOKIT THE BAT!!!" is a bit much for the poor little critters. every now and then someone will raise a stink that they should relocate the bats since they could be rabid, but the rangers generally ignore that. The camp they roost at is only used on weekend from about May to October, so the bats got dibs on their tent. Campers will go away before the bats do.
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The majority on my rescues are "There's a BAT in my house! GET IT OUT!" rescue/relocate, but sometimes I get an injured one, like my current bat.
I'm not allowed by law to keep them, so the unreleasable animals have to be put down. Here in Australia there are no organizations that specialize in captive bat care, just a bunch of people like me.
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Neat! :)
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I am unable to find a contact point for her, but you can write to her in care of the author of the article.
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