One interesting thing about bats is that bat guano (droppings) has a very high content of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium. Which makes it a perfect plant fertilizer. I have used it and it's great for gardens.
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Bats and being bitten...
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Masked Man
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Bats are good! They help to keep the insect population in check.
Vampire bags tend to not live in the US. If they do, they live in the extreme southern US (think very southern Texas near the Mexico border). And they tend to bite livestock anyway and not humans.
The worst thing that could possibly happen to you from a bat is rabies, and even that's rare. They mostly avoid human beings.
Vampire bags tend to not live in the US. If they do, they live in the extreme southern US (think very southern Texas near the Mexico border). And they tend to bite livestock anyway and not humans.
The worst thing that could possibly happen to you from a bat is rabies, and even that's rare. They mostly avoid human beings.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
Only one species of vampire bats drink blood, and that's vampire bats. But they definitely will not turn you into a vampire. A few years ago I remember hearing that the bats where I live eat tons of mosquitoes every summer, and because of West Nile and Zika that was something to be very thankful for. And then 2020 came and everyone was blaming bats for Covid 19. Or racist nonsense like people from China eating bat soup or whatever. Now it seems it's mainly rabies you have to worry about. Rabies is terrifying. Almost any warm-blooded animal can catch or carry rabies, and although it's rare in humans, you can have rabies and not know it, and by the time you develop symptoms it's nearly always too late. You could have been on vacation and taking a nap in a hammock in the evening, where a small bat carrying rabies could have landed on you and just left a tiny scratch or a cut. That's all it takes. Then you wake up without any knowledge and return home and not know for at least a few months you've got the virus in your body. Just too scary. And all the time people keep telling us we need to "go touch grass" or whatever.
It gets even worse, I heard that there antivaxxers now that refuse to vaccinate their dogs, even for rabies. They "think" their dogs are going to become autistic or become like cats some other kind of ludicrous pile of male bovine dung. I won't being feel sorry for the antivaxxer humans if their dogs give them rabies.
It gets even worse, I heard that there antivaxxers now that refuse to vaccinate their dogs, even for rabies. They "think" their dogs are going to become autistic or become like cats some other kind of ludicrous pile of male bovine dung. I won't being feel sorry for the antivaxxer humans if their dogs give them rabies.
Once, at dusk, I was walking in a park when a small fruit bat flew around my waist
tickling my belly and back with its wings. I had on a short sports bra, so my waist was exposed.
It didn't try to bite but this is an unusual experience.
Native American lore says it is the mark of the Shaman.
Rabies is the only thing that is dangerous from the saliva of any warm- blooded animal.
There are groups of people who drink human blood as a vampirism cult.
tickling my belly and back with its wings. I had on a short sports bra, so my waist was exposed.
It didn't try to bite but this is an unusual experience.
Native American lore says it is the mark of the Shaman.
Rabies is the only thing that is dangerous from the saliva of any warm- blooded animal.
There are groups of people who drink human blood as a vampirism cult.
Au Naturel
Au Naturel
Guys, you can be treated for rabies at any point up until symptoms begin. In humans, that is anywhere from a week to a year. Of course, you want to start it as early as possible because you might be one of the unlucky ones.
When I was a kid, if an unvaccinated dog bit someone, the rule was to quarantine the dog for ten days to look for symptoms but begin treating the human just in case. Treatment starts with human rabies immunoglobin injected around the wound and then a rabies vaccination immediately, at three days, seven days, and 14 days.
Nowadays, they just euthanize the animal immediately and look at its brain. That way, they don't need to start the treatment if the animal is clean. So, vaccinate your pets.
Rabies in dogs most frequently comes from exposure to wild animals. If a wild animal of any kind bites or scratches you, they automatically assume possible rabies and do an exam of its brain if they can. If they can't, you get the treatment. If you go somewhere where rabies is endemic, you should get vaccinated before you go. They also recommend it for people handling animals, dealing with wildlife, or involved in caving. The vaccination is good for three years.
When I was in the military, it was one of the vaccinations they gave you when deploying you to anywhere that wasn't a first-world country.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
When I was a kid, if an unvaccinated dog bit someone, the rule was to quarantine the dog for ten days to look for symptoms but begin treating the human just in case. Treatment starts with human rabies immunoglobin injected around the wound and then a rabies vaccination immediately, at three days, seven days, and 14 days.
Nowadays, they just euthanize the animal immediately and look at its brain. That way, they don't need to start the treatment if the animal is clean. So, vaccinate your pets.
Rabies in dogs most frequently comes from exposure to wild animals. If a wild animal of any kind bites or scratches you, they automatically assume possible rabies and do an exam of its brain if they can. If they can't, you get the treatment. If you go somewhere where rabies is endemic, you should get vaccinated before you go. They also recommend it for people handling animals, dealing with wildlife, or involved in caving. The vaccination is good for three years.
When I was in the military, it was one of the vaccinations they gave you when deploying you to anywhere that wasn't a first-world country.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
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Scary? Who, us?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cam...used to swarm the skies over Central America.
A sculpture of Camazotz in Museo Popol Vuh in Guatemala City.
https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/bats-in-mythology-and-folklore-around-the-world/
And lets not forget the bat of all bats…
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cam...used to swarm the skies over Central America.
A sculpture of Camazotz in Museo Popol Vuh in Guatemala City.
https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/bats-in-mythology-and-folklore-around-the-world/
Vampires
In many human cultures, caves were seen as gateways to the underworld and bats often emerge from caves at twilight when day merges into night. The underworld is often associated with the dead but it is perhaps the association with vampires that is the most sinister aspect of bats. Out of over 13,000 species, there are only three that feed on blood. Nevertheless, it is still a strongly sinister characteristic linking them closely to vampirism.
Vampire bats were not discovered until the 16th century in Central and South America. Although bats already had long had a sinister reputation their addition to European vampire folklore came after that. It was from these traditions that the vampire bats were named rather than them giving their name to the supernatural, blood-sucking creature. Although vampire bats have been known to attack humans and large animals it is usually not fatal, though it has been known to transmit rabies. Sometimes, as with the myth, it leaves a trademark two-pronged bite on the victim.
The novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker encouraged the vampire association which was expanded and embellished later by other writers. The myths grew with the 1927 stage production which further associated Dracula with bats. Further films and novels continued associating vampires with bats and this is still perpetuated in western literature, films, television, theatre, art and most forms of media.
Common Vampire Bat
And lets not forget the bat of all bats…
lovely_darlingprettybaby
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I guess that is how they are vampires and covid started because snaps diseased us because we ate them.
The animals will turn on us next because we wreck the environment....watch this space
lovely_darlingprettybaby
Well-Known Member
They take a lot more than they think the days but autistics just take a little bit
lovely_darlingprettybaby
Well-Known Member
You can do it. I give permission if it works out maybe one day I would get a credit.Hey, that would be a great story. Somebody is bitten by a bat, then believes they are tuning into a vampire, but also they turn into a comedian and all their jokes are about blood references. I could see a TV miniseries. I need to pitch this to Hollyweird. Disney would come out with loveable little bat figures with lit-up eyes. I am going to do this as soon as l checkout some orange groves.
It is not like my life is getting better anyway.
I would love to see a little vampire cartoon or a series about a bat that turns someone into a vampire maybe too much like spiderman or teen wolf.
I would love to see buffy the vampire series as them grown up and moved on. But it would probably bomb.
And Sarah Michelle geller could be only one to do as well as the rest of the cast.
I wonder what happens if you are bitten by that one.
Well, it definitely means you are a bad guy and you probably deserved it.
I stand corrected! I looked it up - the 10-year-old boy died in 2005. Serum and spinal fluid collected before his death were sent to the CDC for testing and rabies was confirmed as the cause of death. Tragic. His parents will never get over his death.
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Avoid wild animals who are acting weird for their species, such as raccoons, who are nocturnal, wandering around during the day. They may be rabid.
Makes me glad we have such strict quarantine laws here.
Perhaps rabies is endemic in the Northern Hemisphere.
That's nice.New Threads
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