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This is why we read books, to learn something new, and especially to challenge the beliefs we’ve had from past assumptions. I did not know much about bats, but I certainly didn’t know how incredibly amazing they are. Not only are they mammals who have a huge impact on the environment (literally tons of mosquitos eaten to name just one) but they are highly social, intelligent and really cute!

Because of decades of horrible media coverage bats get a bad wrap, for instance one example where millions of bats were killed for a disease outbreak where only two people died, and it wasn’t even from bats.

The book is also a helpful reminder about what it means to care about conservation and why ecosystems matter. Remove bats, livestock affected, plants affected, let alone the spread of disease.

All that said, this book really needs an appended chapter to discuss covid, not from the conspiracy theory side, but from the wet markets and how close bats and other mammals are to us, and how we need to protect them.