Uglorable! » bats http://www.uglorable.com Ugly? Adorable? Uglorable! Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:34:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fallen Bat http://www.uglorable.com/2008/04/19/fallen-bat/ http://www.uglorable.com/2008/04/19/fallen-bat/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:51:28 +0000 Kento http://www.uglorable.com/?p=124

From the Flickr photo/macro description:

    Bats can’t launch from a flat horizontal surface, they need to fall first. Normally you should leave a healthy, grounded bat to crawl up something in order to launch itself, but in this case the bat was a healthy juvenile pipistrelle and in a house with three cats… I launched it out of the window before they found it.
    Never handle bats without wearing gloves and always consult a bat expert before you do anything. Bats are a protected species in the UK and are very difficult to care for.
    Seriously; if you find a bat in distress, call a bat expert, they won’t mind!
    www.bats.org.uk
    Need help with a bat?
    Call the Bat Helpline
    0845 1300 228     [UK Number]

I wasn’t able to find a similar number for people in the United States, but please, please, be careful around bats. My grandmother was once bit by a bat, and she can tell you, rabies shots are not a nice thing.

Via Steve Brace’s Flickr Photostream! (Third Steve in a row!)

Emi’s Update:
In the US contact your local Bat Working Group (elsewhere I’m sure you can contact a bat conservation organization and they can help you out). Unfortunately the national Bat Working Group website is down, so I can’t link to it, but I’m sure you can pull up a local Working Group or conservation organization pretty easily on google…

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VAMPIRE BATS. Ugly! Adorable! Uglorable! SENTENCE FRAGMENTS.

Via Duncan’s “Unbearably Cute” Flickr set!

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