They have fur, not feathers, but at least they fly – it is a batty Mad Mammal Monday 

Mad Mammal Monday is here again! This past weekend, International Bat Night was celebrated and so we thought that all the MammalMAPPers should join in the battiness. In particular, we want to refer to you an awesome blog about bats written by Rebecca Sennett over at ARKive blog.arkive.org/2012/08/go-batty-for-bats-on-international-bat-night. There are 10 fascinating bat facts in this article, and it makes for an excellent read. The photos shown here are from the Virtual Mammal Museum. Please continue uploading your bat photos to our mammalMAP virtual museum at vmus.adu.org.za so that we can all aid bat conservation across Africa!

Les Underhill
2012-08-27

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