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Trivia About Bats
Halloween

Go Batty For This Bat Fact or Bat Myth Quiz!

Tricky creatures to figure out due to all the myths and relative difficulty to spot in the wild, can you find the bat facts inside the bat fiction?
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Tricky creatures to figure out due to all the myths and relative difficulty to spot in the wild, can you find the bat facts inside the bat fiction? These flying foxes were rescued and wrapped up — the babes don't look that scary now, do they? Test yourself and start this quiz 'cause it's bat-tastic!

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Who Knew? Bat Oral Sex Might Have an Evolutionary Benefit
Halloween

Who Knew? Bat Oral Sex Might Have an Evolutionary Benefit

Just in time for Halloween mania: some stats on bats.
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Just in time for Halloween mania: some stats on bats. This isn't about how they've come to be part of Halloween iconography, but rather about their sex habits. It turns out, bats give head, too!

Scientists have long known that animals engage in nonprocreative sex acts like oral sex. (Just look up the sex acts Bonobo chimps engage in and your sex life may look vanilla in comparison.) But they're trying to figure out if the fruit bats that are performing oral sex on each other might not also have sex for longer periods of time, which may have an evolutionary benefit.

Bats performing oral sex could be trying to increase the chances that sperm will fertilize the egg or attempting to kill bacteria on the penis, and in effect, keep both bat partners from getting STDs. Wow. I think that's enough of bat sex ed for today!

Baby Bat Day Care in Queensland, Australia
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Friday Feel Good: Baby Bat Rescue Center

Jenny McClain has her hands full at her bat rescue center in Northern Queensland, Australia.
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Jenny McClain has her hands full at her bat rescue center in Northern Queensland, Australia. It's paralysis tick season, and as mother bats get bitten, they are too ill to take care of their babies. That's where Jenny and her staff of baby bat lovin' volunteers come in.

Ultimately, what's good for these little bats (including one named Wilson!) is good for the ecosystem; bats help to pollinate fruit trees and plants. In addition to the ridiculously cute sight of baby bats sucking on pacifiers, rolled up in pink and blue blankets and lined up in a basket, I shed a little tear watching mom bat and Wilson being separated so that both could get medical care and TLC. Sigh — so cute!

Bat and Cat Cookies Two Ways — Beginner and Expert
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Bat and Cat Cookies Two Ways — Beginner and Expert

While I may not want a bat in my coffee, I do love to celebrate Halloween with festive cookies.
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While I may not want a bat in my coffee, I do love to celebrate Halloween with festive cookies. Bat and cat cookies are the quintessential Halloween dessert. If you're looking for something fast and simple, or you don't have Halloween cookie cutters on hand, try the first recipe, which simply calls for store-bought sugar cookie dough. If you're in the mood to make something from scratch, these dark, luscious cocoa bat and cat cookies will do the trick (or treat!). To get baking, read more

Halloween

A Fabby Halloween: Bat Ears

It's a sign. I'm trying to decide on my pup Annabelle's Halloween costume, and after a weekend of pet store perusing, we're leaning toward these adorable bat wings.
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Giles & Brother at ShopStyle

It's a sign. I'm trying to decide on my pup Annabelle's Halloween costume, and after a weekend of pet store perusing, we're leaning toward these adorable bat wings. Since my little Frenchie is black, the black bat wings looked so simple and chic. Then, today I find these Giles & Brother Tiny Bat Studs ($78). Done and done. If you've decided to go costume-free this Halloween, can I beg you to be a wee festive and indulge in these or some other spooky jewels?

Woman's Coffee Goes Batty
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Woman's Coffee Goes Batty

In Cedar Rapids, IA, one woman got her Halloween trick several weeks early when she found a bat in her coffee.
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In Cedar Rapids, IA, one woman got her Halloween trick several weeks early when she found a bat in her coffee.

The woman reported a bat in her house but wasn't too concerned about it. She then turned on her automatic coffeemaker before bedtime and enjoyed her coffee the next morning. When she cleaned out her coffee machine that night, she discovered the dead bat in the coffee filter. The bat was sent to a laboratory to be tested, where researchers determined its brain was too cooked by the hot water for them to determine whether it was rabid. The woman is currently undergoing treatment for possible rabies.

I've heard some food scenarios that are even more disgusting, but this one tops the list of strange occurrences! Does this remind you of any bizarre food experiences that you've had?

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