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Bats carry rabies. In reality less than half of 1% of bats carries the rabies virus. In the last 40 years fewer than 40 people in the United States have contracted rabies from bats. A person is more likely to be struck and killed by lightning than get rabies from a bat. However, rabies is a dangerous disease so you should avoid direct contact with bats as well as other wild animals.

Bats are rodents. Bats may be similar to rodents in many ways, but there’s recent evidence that point to bats being more closely related to primates than to rodents.

Bats are blind. Bats cannot see color, but they see better at night than we do, and many bats can also see in the dark by using echolocation.

Cute Bat Face

 
   

Bats get tangled in people’s hair. Bats may occasionally fly close to someone while catching insects, but they are too smart to fly and get tangled into someone’s hair. That's because the bats send a high frequency tone that bounces off objects giving them the ability to distinguish the size, shape and even texture of a tiny insect, and it enables them to avoid obstacles as small as a piece of thread.

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