From devils to superheroes: our complicated relationship with bats
- Written by Susan Lawler, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
A "cloud" of Mexican freetail bats leaving their roost. Wikimedia
Review: Bat by Tessa Laird.
Did you know that the collective noun for bats is a “cloud”, or that in the first scientific classification of mammals, bats were placed close to humans because, like us, they have two nipples? The book Bat, by Tessa Laird, is full of similar...
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