RainyDays wrote:I've been accused of having a slightly odd sense of cute. All the normal ones apply, but also some stranger ones. That's just to let you know, not everyone's going to agree with me. Now, have a bat! An adorable, leathery, fuzzy bat:
Anyone who says bats aren't adorable has never seen the Honduran white bat. How can you not love those ears?
I've always particularly liked bats, not only because they eat bugs and pollinate plants, but because one of my all-time favourite book series as a kid was Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel. I don't think it was ever popular outside of Canada, but it's a young adult book series told from the perspective of bats, who of course go on adventures and such.
It has a lot of surprisingly realistic little details in it, like the way colours are never described (since bats don't have colour vision), as well as the inclusion of
bat bombs, which were literally little bombs attached to bats that the U.S. was planning to use against Japan in World War II. It wasn't the brightest idea, since when they tested it out at their own military base, the bats tended to land wherever they damn well pleased and promptly proceeded to explode. Including, y'know, on fuel tanks. (Have bat bombs made an appearance in any Cracked articles? I feel like they should have.)