why are bats stigmatized as being creepy?

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I mean

look at these things

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they’re like tiny

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fluffy

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dragons

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but instead of breathing fire they squeak and cuddle 

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in caves

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and leaves

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and they have funny ears and noses

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I mean really

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bats are amazing

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This post is so fucking important to me

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Look at that last little one go “Splat! Flop, flop.” So cute!!

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SKY PUPPIES ❤

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS REMINDS ME

I KNOW I’VE POSTED THIS PHOTO BEFORE BUT, TBT, DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THE TIME A BAT FLEW INTO MY ROOM IN LIKE JANUARY

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he came in all cold an sluggish and very little, took a little nappy-nap in my sweater’s pocket till he warmed up, and left

he’s my bro

Okay, please please do not touch bats, especially if they look unwell. The last comment person got very lucky because bats are the #1 carrier of rabies and they have the ability to aerosolize rabies, meaning you don’t necessarily have to be bitten.

When I was in undergrad studying animal science/pre-veterinary medicine, there was a guy in the nearest major city to my school who decided to pick up a sickly looking bat and put it in a box and bring it on public transit. Found out later the bat had rabies. The state+the CDC had to track down every single person who had been on that bus to give them rabies shots. Every. Single. One. It was a public health nightmare.

I know they’re adorable and if you live in a country that is rabies free (which is just the UK and Japan) then ignore this but otherwise PLEASE be careful handling wild bats or any wild animal! Rabies is just one of many zoonotic diseases (diseases that can pass from animals to people and vice versa) and unless you know what you’re doing and what precautions to take, you are putting yourself and others at risk by handling wild animals

^This is why, btw. In the era before germ theory, bats were these creepy scary things that defied miasma theory and where your cousin who touched one might have gone ballistic and then mysteriously died. That’s one of the reasons it got associated with vampire mythos, and why bats’ wings became so ubiquitous in anglo-christian depictions of fallen angels.

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