And then I have to tell you about a friend who had a bat problem (as opposed to a Ratt problem) in her attic a few years ago, and called a licensed exterminator, who told her that the bats "must be laying eggs in the attic."Egg-laying mammals, in the land of the free!
Bats don't reproduce that way, and you'd think they would have mentioned that during the extensive afternoon-long training that man received. But meanwhile, down Texas way...
A large bunch of bats - a "swarm" in Bat-talk - caused a ripple on the weather radar as they flew away from a thunderstorm.
Chris Suchan, meteorologist for WOAI-TV in San Antonio, reported that a batswarm flew out of Frio Bat Cave in Uvalde County not long ago.
There were millions of them, Mexican free-tailed bats! And they got to be on live TV on May 20, and the radar footage shows the millions of encountering a thunderstorm.
Bats heading out for night facing headwinds from storm gust front moving in (thin green line) #txwx
A powerful mighty wind - a gust front, in weather parlance, caused by heavy rain pushing pushing downdrafts out of the way - collided with the bat brigade, sending them toward Utopia, Sabinal, and points east.
"Dual-Pol radar works beautifully to distinguish these bats from rain when storms and the bats are on radar," Suchan told his audience.
"[It's] easy to identify the ring signature, but on occasion, when they're starting to come out, it can look like a storm core until you see the ring show itself as they fan out."
If you can't tell a storm core from a ring show, Chris Suchan is there to help you, in case you don't mind living near some literal hellhole called the Frio Bat Cave, which bills itself as the second-largest bat colony in the world.
I don't even want to know what is the first.
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