On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:39:40 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


Batts are amazing creatures when it comes to their echolocation abilities,
but far from perfect.

I saw one run into a chain link fence once.

....Austin has become somewhat renown for its bat population in the
past couple of decades. One of the ordinances that keeps getting -
dare I say it? - batted around every few years is requiring homeowners
within a mile of the Town Lake Bridge, where the big portion of the
bat population hangs out(*), to either replace their chain link fences
with solid wooden ones, or buy those "privacy strips" that you can
weave through the links. The idea is to give the bats enough surface
for their radar to bounce off of and keep them from getting hung up in
the fences. The problem is sheer cost and logistics combined with the
fact that the only ones demanding it are some really weird people that
even the enviromentalist neo-hippies tend to avoid.

Besides that, it doesn't happen that often, and there's about two or
three million bats running around anyway, so who's going to miss a
small few...



(*) You may think I'm batty, but I"m reall not trying to be punny
about this one for a change. Really.
OM
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