The latest newsletter from "The Texas Gardener's Seeds", said to put up a bat house to encourage the presence of bats. These shy animals consume 3,000 or more mosquitoes and other insects nightly, and bats are less likely to be rabid than dogs are. Need another reason? Bats are responsible for up to 95 percent of the seed dispersal essential to the regeneration of forests. Our planet is populated with plenty of these bizarre and astonishing creatures. Without the need for resorting to fiction, here are three of the Bat Family's best known representatives:
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