Comments on: Critters http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/ Doin' Donuts in the Borromean Rings Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dewey’s Excellent Adventure « Not Liz http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-99 Dewey’s Excellent Adventure « Not Liz Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:41:21 +0000 http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-99 [...] by Not Liz Some of my readers might remember a few years back, when I got into bed and had a bat fly out from behind it (this was in my old basement apartment in Ann [...] [...] by Not Liz Some of my readers might remember a few years back, when I got into bed and had a bat fly out from behind it (this was in my old basement apartment in Ann [...]

]]> By: Sarah http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-27 Sarah Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:42:00 +0000 http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-27 sounds like an entirely reasonable course of action to me.<br/><br/>you could throw a rock or something, which it might think is a bug and swoop for it, then you swoop with a pot or pan or what-have-you. but you'd have to be fast. i'm not sure what i would do.<br/><br/>texas a&m university libraries have a batman on staff--a man whose specific job it is to come in and catch and release bats whenever they are found in the stacks. In the middle of my undergraduate they were doing some construction on the 5th and 6th floors of the library, and managed to disturb and release into the collection an entire nesting colony of bats. Chaos and hilarity, rabies scares, newspaper articles, and batman signs on the elevators ensued. In the end, they were able to take out most of them and release them, but it once bats pick a nesting place, they want to come back and they have sonar on their side. thus the occasional batman calls.<br/><br/>craziness. sounds like an entirely reasonable course of action to me.

you could throw a rock or something, which it might think is a bug and swoop for it, then you swoop with a pot or pan or what-have-you. but you’d have to be fast. i’m not sure what i would do.

texas a&m university libraries have a batman on staff–a man whose specific job it is to come in and catch and release bats whenever they are found in the stacks. In the middle of my undergraduate they were doing some construction on the 5th and 6th floors of the library, and managed to disturb and release into the collection an entire nesting colony of bats. Chaos and hilarity, rabies scares, newspaper articles, and batman signs on the elevators ensued. In the end, they were able to take out most of them and release them, but it once bats pick a nesting place, they want to come back and they have sonar on their side. thus the occasional batman calls.

craziness.

]]> By: epugachev http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-26 epugachev Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:21:00 +0000 http://notliz.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/critters/#comment-26 You get used to bats after awhile. They show up periodically at my parents' house. My dad has had success swatting them with a raquetball racket that we have sitting around the house for some reason (no one in my family has to my knowledge ever played racquetball), and I have knocked one out of the air by moving a bath towel into its flight path at just the right time. (The hard part is moving down to the floor to cover the bat with the towel before it gets up and starts flying again.)<br/><br/>The general principle of bat catching seems to be to wait until it establishes a regular flight path (they often will go around and around on the same route) and then to use that predictability of its trajectory to catch it. You get used to bats after awhile. They show up periodically at my parents’ house. My dad has had success swatting them with a raquetball racket that we have sitting around the house for some reason (no one in my family has to my knowledge ever played racquetball), and I have knocked one out of the air by moving a bath towel into its flight path at just the right time. (The hard part is moving down to the floor to cover the bat with the towel before it gets up and starts flying again.)

The general principle of bat catching seems to be to wait until it establishes a regular flight path (they often will go around and around on the same route) and then to use that predictability of its trajectory to catch it.

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