Articles of category "Bats"

Halloween bats are familiar figures when the air starts to chill and the leaves start to turn. Crisp air and dead leaves are one thing, though, the dreaded creepy bat is certainly another. The flighty, freaky, angered bats can drive you to madness, much like Edgar Allen Poe's raven; the bats can drive you batty, and can turn a perfectly normal day into a true horror ride.

Halloween stories have tended to focus on the fanged teeth possessed by vampire bats. In doing so, they have shaded the characteristics of all bats, characteristics that can have the ability to do some real harm. The following article seeks to correct that slight 'cover-up'. It performs that correction by taking a close look at some of those bat characteristics.