Re: Austin, Utopia, Uglossia, and Bats.

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> >
> > (For our non-Austinite friends, we're talking about the largest
> > bat swarm in North America -- several million of them make
> > their home here.  They're rather nice, actually, since the insect
> > population is kept to a minimum :-) )
>
> Ignorance and fear of bats have diminished bat populations by three
> fourths in the world, and yet they remain one of the most populace
> of mammals!  I'd love to see them.
>
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.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt