. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. EFORE the setting of the sun on any beautiful summer day, some members of this re- markable order of animals begin their weird activity. Out of crevices and dark hollows creeps the strange, gloomy army of Bats, which has been hidden during the day as if it had reasons of its own for shunning the light, and sets out on its nightly travels. As the darkness be- comes more dense the num- ber of these enigmatical beings increases until at midnight all have emerge
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. EFORE the setting of the sun on any beautiful summer day, some members of this re- markable order of animals begin their weird activity. Out of crevices and dark hollows creeps the strange, gloomy army of Bats, which has been hidden during the day as if it had reasons of its own for shunning the light, and sets out on its nightly travels. As the darkness be- comes more dense the num- ber of these enigmatical beings increases until at midnight all have emerged and are flying hither and thither through the air. Bats Inhabit The more closely we approach the tor- Warm rid zone, the greater is the number of Climates. Bats, and the richer their variety. The South is the native country of the majority of Wing- handed Animals. Even in Italy, Greece and Spain the number of Bats is surprising. There, as even- ing draws nigh, they come out of their nooks and corners not by hundreds, but by thousands. Out of every house, every old stone wall, every rocky hollow they flutter, as if a great army was preparing for a parade, and the en- tire horizon is literally filled with them. The swarms of Bats one sees in a hot country are aston- ishing. It is extremely interesting to spend an evening outside the gates of a city in the Orient where the Bats literally darken the sky. One soon ceases to count them, for in every direction multi- tudes are flutteringthrough the air. Everywhere there is a living and rnoving mass flying through the trees of gardens and troves, fluttering over the elds, some low, others at a considerable height. Through the streets of the town, through houses and rooms flits the moving train. Hundreds are con- stantly appearing and disappearing and one is always surrounded by a hovering swarm. Principal Characteris- The Wing-handed Animals are tics of the Wing- mainly distinguished bv their bod- Handed Animals, ily shape. Almost un
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