All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes (1900) (14591441577)

Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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BATS. THE BAT
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VAMPIRE BAT (% Natural Size). man, makes a tiny puncture with its sharp tooth, and proceeds to draw theblood, but in the cases of horses and cattle it selects the shoulders and flanksto operate upon. After all, the main diet of the bat species is insects. It isinteresting to examine the ground near where bats are resting and see themarvellous collection of beautiful insect wings scattered around. Bats maketheir homes in church-steeples, barns, and out-houses, where they lay quietlyall day, hanging head down, after the fashion of their kind. Then as the sungoes down they come out in thousands. In the country they fly over the richmeadows and edges of the woods, while in cities they buzz around the electriclights, which attract vast numbers of insects. Bats have always been a sourceof much superstition and dread. In many parts of England a bat flying in ata window is supposed to foretell a death, or if one should alight upon ahorse or cow the owner will expect some bad luck. The scienti