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#19015 - Sat Feb 03 2001 10:08 AM Bats
JoJo2 Star Poster Registered: Fri Nov 19 1999 Posts: 17656 Loc: San Diego California USA	A single little brown bat can catch 600 mosquitoes in just 1 hour. Bats are the leading cause of rabies in the US. Bat bites led to 12 of the 25 cases of rabies seen in the US since 1980. Dogs are a close second. During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs. They failed. Frog-eating bats identify edible from poisonous frogs by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter by hiding & using short, difficult to locate calls. Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to 2 miles high to feed or to catch tail-winds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour. More than 50% of American bat species are in severe decline or already listed as endangered. Losses are occurring at alarming rates worldwide. The bat is the only mammal that can fly (without a plane). The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects.
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#19016 - Mon Feb 05 2001 12:49 AM Re: Bats
fjohn Multiloquent Registered: Mon Dec 06 1999 Posts: 2742 Loc: Wyoming USA Way Out West	Well, the bats didn't actually drop bombs. Incendary devices were attached to bats in the notion that since bats live in secluded attics of houses and such that the devices would detonate (I forget how, timed fuse maybe) and burn it down. How do you find out all this stuff anyway? You're not one of those mad scientists I keep seeing in old black and white movies are you? _________________________ Some days it just doesn't seem worth trying to chew through the restraints.
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