Puzzle Description:

When you're out after dark on Halloween, waiting for the Great Pumpkin with Charlie Brown, remember that cats and bats can see you much better than you can see them. ;)

#1: Wombat (wombatilim) on Oct 26, 2012 [SPOILER]

To be fair, the bats mostly "see" you with their echolocation, but they're still much better at it than you are...

is that a "wom"-bat?

:)

Fun puzzle!

Thanks for a very educational entry ;-D

I love the bat.:)

thx for entry, bat

I once sat just outside a batcave (actually a bat-disused-mine) in the pitch dark while they were leaving for the night. Hundreds of bats per second whizzing past my head, little squeaks and puffs of air from their wings the only hints of their passage.

I've never sat outside a catcave. :(

Fun puzzle wombat. Wow, Joe, that sounds exciting and a little scary. I do love to watch the bats at dusk...plus they eat all the mosquitos that are trying to eat me!

My echolocation is a bit rusty.

Love the puzzle!

I've only ever seen bats inside (and outside) buildings, but my husband went to see the bats under the Congress Ave Bridge in Austin, TX. 4 years of living half an hour from there, and I never once went to see them.

We had bats inside our house (in the attic) and during the time when we were trying to exclude them we learned a lot about them. My father-in-law became very interested in them and joined Bat Conservation International. He went on many bat-seeing trips with them, and on one I went along.

This one was actually a hands-on training seminar for naturalists to learn how to properly catch, identify, measure, and release bats. So, two precautionary rabies shots later and off we go!

(By the way, rabies is not really a significant threat from bats. If a bat is flying, it is unlikely to have rabies. Don't touch a bat on the ground. -- And when is the last time you saw a bat on the ground?)

Aside from the bat-mine and some trap-release data-collecting nights, we also stopped at dawn at an abandoned church that had a huge colony of "little brown bats" -myotis lucifugis. We came at dawn to watch them come back.

When they leave their roost, they zip out and get to work eating. They don't have much room to store energy (they weigh only 1/2 ounce), so they're pretty hungry. When they come back, however, they do a "dance" outside their roost. They fly around the entrance in a kind-of whirlwind or tornado shape. Biologists think this is some kind of community-building exercise, as these bats are very social.

Terrific experience.

Now I want a catcave.

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Love it Joe!

Wow. Bat school. Fun puzzle and comments.

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