Bat appreciation day is today

Lesser-known bat stats:

1. “Bats can detect something as fine as a human hair as much as a mile away”–from the Warrior’s Path Naturalist Activity Handbook, via my sister.
2. Bats can tell one person from another by our breathing sounds.
3. Female bats practice birth control.
4. Most bats have only one pup a year.
5. Bats can swim.
6. Guano was Texas’s largest mineral export before oil.
7. Bats are important pollinators.
8. Bats make up 1/4 of the world’s mammals.
9. Bats and humans were once one and the same.
10. Bat #15 looks a little like Hugh Jackman.

Image credit: Illustration from Ernst Haeckl's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904,the Public Domain Review.