i thought this story was rather appropriate.
Photo in the News: Baby Bats Babble Like Human Infants
August 14, 2006—Just like human children, bat pups may amuse themselves by saying the equivalent of "goo goo ga ga."
Young greater sac-winged bats, like the one pictured here, make long strings of adultlike noises, according to research by Mirjam Knörnschild and her colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
The screeches, barks, and hisses have no social context, meaning the sounds are most likely babbling and not a form of communication, the scientists report in an upcoming issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften (listen to a babbling baby bat). ...........
Photography courtesy Mirjam Knörnschild
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i just had a bat flying through the factory I work at. It was not near as big as the one pictured, but scary none the less. (i am a wimp)
we've had bats at work too. although i work in an office not a factory. we have an odd building. i have pictures (somewhere) of the ceiling. i'll find them and post them. it's a skylight. i work on the ground level floor, which they call the atrium. it's full of plants and small trees. it's an ugly building outside, but it does have some good points inside. (bad points too. way too much concrete)
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