Bats, Interesting, nice, or scary?
By SpitFire179
@SpitFire179 (2536)
Canada
March 18, 2007 10:04pm CST
The other night on TV as the roomies were watching something i became pretty frustrated with this sound that was actually hurting my ears coming from it.
I looked over and they were talking about bats, yes, a documentary.
It got me thinking. There's a few kinds of bats, the most memorable are the fruit bats and the vampire bats.
Each have their own ways.
There's many breeds of them, the fruit bats have at least 4 breeds of them alone, but are interesting creatures, and the vampire bats only one or 2 breeds, but because of all the hype, people fear them.
Are you one of those people? do you fear bats? especially vampire bats?
I've always been seriously intrigued, and drawn by bats, regardless of kind, and from recent research online after that show about them, there is really nothing to fear of them. i might just ask for one for my birthday ;) haha no, but it would be cool...
So what do you think about them, have you ever come in contact with one? do you fear the bat species?
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@adela56 (183)
• Philippines
19 Mar 07
when i was young and innocent, i was told that bats transform to blood sucking vampires when night falls so i was like afraid and so i sleep earlier. but now, am old and gray am not scared anymore. so man, parnts really sometimes lie bigtime to their kids!
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@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
19 Mar 07
Yes your definately right about that, parents don't seem to enjoy watching their children take in the truth sometimes, but it's good that your not scared anymore!
Thanks!
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@meredin (13)
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19 Mar 07
Personaly I've always liked them. when I was a kid visiting my Aunts house in the countryside I used to love going into the back garden at dusk. and watch the bats swoop around me as they hunted the various insects. I'd stay as still as possible so as not to scare them away.
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@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
19 Mar 07
awww that's awesome, i always liked them too, once when i was small i saw a group of idiot teens torturing one, i could have killed them right there, i couldn't stand seeing them hurt the bat...
Poor creature...
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@Goranimal (315)
• United States
19 Mar 07
Well i always preferred the wooden bat over the aluminum, the ball always seemed to go further.
:)
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
19 Mar 07
I'm not afraid of bats but I certainly don't like them in my house. Outside they are fine, they can eat all the flies and mosquitoes they want. We have a lot of them in Michigan and I have had a couple in my house but they are eventually tripped and relocated outdoors where they belong.
@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
19 Mar 07
Yeah when my mother was growing up she had bats in her attic, and then when i was about 11 we had one in the basement, kept coming upstairs in the night and scaring the heck out of everyone, but i still somehow loved the little things.
I'm glad you cared for their safety in caring for your happiness, Thanks!
@Caila611 (992)
• United States
19 Mar 07
I remember one time walking in the summer around dusk when a bab dive bombed my head! LOL. Scared the living daylights out of me! I think what scares me the most is there teeth. If they didn't have such sharp teeth i don't think they would bother me so much.
@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
19 Mar 07
i know what you mean, but somehow that's never scared me, i think it's because of the low chance of being bitten as they prefer bugs, fruit and animal blood.
Hope you don't get dove at again :P
Thanks!
