News Headline
Anti-bat views must not take wing: More informed people must bat for these much-maligned mammals
Source
Economic Times (India)
Publication Date
2020-04-16
Bats have got a pretty raw deal in popular culture ever since Bram Stoker’s 1897 book 'Dracula' cemented the connection between largely unlovely ‘hand-winged’ chiroptera and the blood-sucking vampires of folklore. Not even the charisma of Batman, who made his superhero debut 42 years later, has been able to dispel that basic human wariness of bats. Although they are not the only creatures to carry coronaviruses, thanks to the current Covid-19-prompted information deluge, the world now knows that.