What is it about bat that we are suppose to appreciate on that day?
If it's appreciation for its culinary potential, then yeah, we can cancel it.
But if it's appreciation for its droppings that make great fertilizers, may be that appreciation can continue.

They also eat many times their weight in mosquitoes, so I'm a bat fan, as long as they're not spreading pandemics and such.

The hypothesis that implicated bats says that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to human because some humans ate raw bats. I doubt the bats wanted to be eaten at all. So it's really unfair to say that the bats spread the pandemic.

Generalizing just a tiny winsy little bit, if we would just stop eating animals, we can avoid a lot of virus/bacteria jumping from non-human animals to human. Let's all go vegetarian!

quote:

But if it's appreciation for its droppings that make great fertilizers, may be that appreciation can continue.

I'm guano have to think about that one for a while.

Ax - it’s not the virus’ “fault” that it replicates in our RNA but I’m not going to appreciate it either.

quote:

Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

quote:

But if it's appreciation for its droppings that make great fertilizers, may be that appreciation can continue.

I'm guano have to think about that one for a while.

quote:

Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

quote:

But if it's appreciation for its droppings that make great fertilizers, may be that appreciation can continue.

I'm guano have to think about that one for a while.

I am dung thinking about it.

In our AZ house, we had bats that would fly out of the nearby mountain at dusk. The highlight was in the summer, when we would often be either in the pool or at least poolside, and hundreds of bats would descend on the houses on our block to zoom by and drink from the swimming pools.

I'm a huge bat fan.