Re: Austin, Utopia, Uglossia, and Bats.

Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> wrote:

>
> Not only ignorance and fear - our tom Tiberius once caught a bat
> from the small colony that lives in a large evergreen tree in one
> of the gardens in our block. He was no end surprised, and so was
> I when I came down at four in the night to look at what he was
> meowing about. We still see the bats around when the night is
> clear.
I don't get to see many bats or any other wild animals... I live
in a very populated suburb. I can see some of them during summer
nights. In the downtown, paradoxically, among all those buildings
and smoke, there are a lot. Once I was at a friend's flat in a
5th floor and a bat apparently got in through a ventilation pipe...
It was just terrible to see, since everybody was trying to get
it out, including itself, and not succeeding.

Oh, and the Faculty of Laws of the Universidad de Rosario has a
bat colony in their old ceiling... I think it's about the greatest
colony in the country -- no kidding, calculations were about
30,000 individuals. Recently they had to replace the ceiling; it
was breaking down under the pressure of several tons of guano.


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/