From devils to superheroes: our complicated relationship with bats

Did you know that the collective noun for bats is a “cloud”, or that in the first scientific classification of mammals, bats were placed close to humans because, like us, they have two nipples?

From devils to superheroes: our complicated relationship with bats

Susan Lawler

Review: Bat by Tessa Laird.

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