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dozen countries and I ve never been attacked by a bat, nor have the other bat researchers I know," said Tuttle, who now is studying the fringe-lipped bat in Panama on a grant from the National Geographic Society.
Rabies Uncommon
Less than 1 percent of all bats are thought to have rabies. Fewer than 10 people in this country have died of rabies caused by bats in the 34 years since record keeping began. People are rarely bit en, Tuttle said, except when they handle a sick bat found on the ground.
Tuttle, curator of mammals at the Milwaukee Public Museum, sometimes gets dozens of calls in a single week from panic-stricken citizens on a bat "hotline" he operates. If. for example, bats have settled behind the caller’s chimney. Tuttle might advise that the animals be left alone. They probably aren't doing any harm, he says.
Contrary to what many of his callers might think, bats are not birds. They are the only true flying mammals. There are about 900 kinds of bats in the world, representing one-fifth of all -mammal spedes. but despite their numbers they are little understood.
’’They’re nocturnal, somewhat secretive, often seen only as silhouettes, and
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