When recently I needed to don my garden hat I was quite out of luck: 7 microbats had snuggled in for the day, which became a 5-day visit, at which point they probably had caught up with their mob.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Wow. Totally bizarre.
Be very careful around bats. They are a major carrier of rabies. Do you know about rabies? Rabies is horrible, and very nearly 100% fatal if not treated within a very specific window after exposure - I.e. before symptoms develop. Only 6 people are known to have ever survived rabies if not treated before symptoms develop. Look up the Milwaukee Protocol for more details. You very definitely do not want rabies.
MrLink
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Feb 13, 2018
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rabies is well known to me from my childhood in germany, where mainly foxes were afflicted with the disease. so i am very respectful with wild animals of all kinds, & would never have tried to touch the bats. ...& i put the hat out into the sun after the bats had moved out.
@walklightly Good job! I would not want you to get exposed to that. Would be Nightmarish.
@MrLink, frothing from the mouth? how inelegant!
@walklightly the disease prevents you from swallowing
LOL At least they weren't red backs or funnel webs!
FrayedBear
Level 9
Feb 13, 2018
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after 16 years in oz still have to meet both yet.
How cute! Amazing little creatures, to be sure.
jayneonacobb
Level 7
Feb 13, 2018
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yes, & usually quite elusive.
@walklightly I'm a big fan of bats, they eat the monster mosquitos here.
wow, awesome.
Rugglesby
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Feb 13, 2018
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yes, i thought so too... & did check every morning whether they'd come back. they just glimpsed at me, but didn't much seem to mind my nosiness 
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