This post is really interesting to me, before I wasn’t too familar with bats and didn’t know what they did for us humans or the enviroment, but now I do since I have had to research and write articles on them for a project. I love to learn and read about them now..

Other people that have commented, as well as yourself, have touched on some interesting points. From my own observation and research I can see that bats fly all over the place because they have very poor vision, and obviously walking is no exception. Blind people use a stick or a golden retriever to assist them whereas bats are only able to really on themselves and the systems and lifestyles they have developed, and with ridiculously large wings for their body they are going to look even more like they are swimming rather than flying.

Different bat species develop in different ways, that’s the reason they walk differently and fly differently. I believe they are stable in their own right, however they may appear to be unstable when moving from place to place.

Hope you don’t mind I put a link to this page on my bat blog post. Wonderful video!

I love bats. There is a Red Bat that roosts in a big Sycamore tree in my neighbor’s yard. I see it almost every night between 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM.

It arrives in April and usually it has a couple of young about the first day of June that are adult size by July. I still see it until about October then it leaves. I see one again the next April.

There are Yellow Bats in the palm trees in the Heights and other places in downtown Houston.

There are thousands of Freetail Bats under a bridge on Waugh Drive going over Buffalo Bayou.

I have observed and caught Evening Bats near Bush Intercontinental Airport.

I have caught all the above kinds of bats.

Thanks for showing me so many of the cool things a bat can do.

Wyeth

I really have to circulate that in my bat conservation group ( what you often saw, but hardly realized bacause of poor time discrimination ).