Puuullleeeassseee... of COURSE you recognize that quote- Rodents of Unusual Sizes? Think.... Think... Princess Bride! :)
Is a bat a rodent? Vermine of course, but I don't think it is technically a rodent. Anyway, This is Francisco, one of the men who works on the HIS campus. Last week the kids came in talking about a wounded bat on the ground by the office, with birds fighting over it. After the 10th or so comment, I decided to go check it out for myself. There it was... hanging on the curb of the sidewalk, clearly stuck but angry. Francisco came along and got some gloves to carry it away (disease and all that rodent-y type of ickiness). So we went to the classroom and got to work. That is until for some reason Francisco came to my door with the bat in his hands (as portrayed so well in this photo). I couldn't ask him why he did that, since he only has English down in greetings mostly. But I am pretty sure since I took a picture of the snake last month, and he was the hero of getting rid of (read: killed) it... that he decided I needed a photo of the bat too. Well- there ya go. Exciting story.
By the way. This is a fruit bat, and unless you pick it up by the wings and haul it around, or unless you choose to do like Gene Simmons (remember KISS people?!) and bite it's head off... it is generally only creepy- not very harmful like Dracula or anything. And FYI, yes, it bit Francisco's gloves, but nothing more. He threw it over the fence away from kiddos and probably the hawks or crows got it pretty soon.