Yosemite nature notes . pleasant odor, which mayafford considerable protection from pred- ators. However, both are known to bekilled by certain hawks, owls, and mam-mals. BATS Bats are probably more numerous inYosemite than an unobservant personmay realize. They may be seen every eve-ning about twilight, or, in some species,earlier, in warm weather, flying back andforth over the river or the meadows inYosemite Valley. They may be heardsqueaking overhead whilst the camper en-joys his after-dinner fire. In half an hoursride in an open car, approaching Chinqua-pin from the south, a friend and I o
Yosemite nature notes . pleasant odor, which mayafford considerable protection from pred- ators. However, both are known to bekilled by certain hawks, owls, and mam-mals. BATS Bats are probably more numerous inYosemite than an unobservant personmay realize. They may be seen every eve-ning about twilight, or, in some species,earlier, in warm weather, flying back andforth over the river or the meadows inYosemite Valley. They may be heardsqueaking overhead whilst the camper en-joys his after-dinner fire. In half an hoursride in an open car, approaching Chinqua-pin from the south, a friend and I once mice. That this has probably always beenso is reflected in the German word forbat, Flcdermaus, or flying mouse. How-ever, we already know that the skull andteeth belie this belief (see pp. 54, 55). In-deed flying insect trap more nearly de-scribes our Yosemite bats. There are many other folk tales aboutbats that have no foundation in instance, they will not normally flyinto a persons hair. For years, ranger. PLC MATTSOMFrom Mammals of Luke Tahoe by Ruber! T. Or. Courtesy of publisher, California Academy of Sciences. LITTLE BROWN BAT counted more than fifty bats flying overthe roadway, where they were silhouettedagainst the gradually darkening sky. The bats wing is formed from thebones of the hand and arm, with aleathery membrane stretched across thisframework and connected to the hindlegs and tail. When at rest, the wingcan be folded up, much as an umbrellacloses. Bats are the only mammals that trulyfly. Many people consider them as flying naturalists have spoken on the platformat the summer evening programs atCamp 14, while bats swooped to and frobehind hem, catching insects that wereattracted by the light on the picturescreen. Yet never has a bat flown intothe hair of a speaker. Once I stood withfour other men in the bat cave of Carls-bad Caserns beneath a blanket of batsestimated at 15,000 individuals, whichclung to the ceiling. In the course of ourinvestigation
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