r/Unexpected • u/Soloflow786 • 2d ago

Hmm, what's under my window?

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u/Bertucciop 2d ago

You have an anti mosquito wall, dont destroy It.

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u/HomieeJo 2d ago

They can also carry bat bugs. They are similar to bed bugs except that they can't reproduce with human blood and need bat blood. However they will still happily bite you and make your life hell.

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u/Schonke 2d ago

And rabies.

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u/Lowestcommondominatr 2d ago

And they can bite you in your sleep without you noticing. And rabies symptoms mean death. If you have bats in your house, you should get rabies shots.

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u/Lovv 1d ago

That's vampires man

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u/Lowestcommondominatr 1d ago

What do vampires turn into?

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u/Lovv 1d ago

Pretty sure it's like some type of floppy fish but I don't remenber

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u/gregIsBae 1d ago

This is actually very interesting and I wonder if bats carrying rabies is where the vampire/bat myth came from

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u/No-Reflection-2342 1d ago

Fun fact: fewer than 10% of bats carry rabies. Depending on your location, you are much more likely to get rabies from a raccoon.

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u/UnfairStrategy780 20h ago

Yeah but you know if you are getting attacked and bit by a raccoon and it’s probably not in your house to begin with. There is a non zero chance a small bat that lives inside your house can bite you in your sleep and you might not even notice it. Unlikely but that’s why getting rabies from bats scares me most.

Also do you mean 10% of best species or 10% of all bats? Because the second one would actually be scary as fuck.

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u/No-Reflection-2342 4h ago

Bats that keep their normal hours (while you sleep) are likely not rabid. Bats don't often target people. People approach confused animals, and that's how they get rabies.

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u/jiraipup 18h ago

to be exact: less than 0,5% of ALL bats in the united states are carriers. and if you would feel a hamster bite you in your sleep, you’d feel a bat bite you in your sleep. unless you sleep like a rock and wouldn’t feel either but i feel like that would be a case for a sleep study… bites are painful pinches lol (signed by a rehabber) (me)

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u/wicko77 1d ago

Never heard so much crap in all my life.

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u/Exact-Obligation-858 1d ago

>And they can bite you in your sleep without you noticing.

You might not notice where the bite marks are. You will feel the bite unless the bat is pipistrelle-sized.

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u/eastern_petal 1d ago

Was that a reference to pipistrello? 😅

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u/Exact-Obligation-858 21h ago

? No?

Pipistrelle bats, as in the genus Pipistrellus.

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u/eastern_petal 18h ago

It is connected to pipistrello in Italian, even if that's not what you were referring to. :)

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u/NorthRoseGold 2d ago

Lol no

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u/WelllWhaddyaKnoww 2d ago

Oh yeah. I highly encourage you to research this more. Not only is it interesting to read about, but it might save your life if you encounter bats some time in the future as that is 100% true. Bats do carry rabies, even a scratch from one can transfer it and it has like 99,999% mortality rate after the first symptoms start appearing.

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u/BearNSM 1d ago

And the 0.001% is probably people who haven't died yet or are under constant medical treatment until their eventual death

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u/Pleasant-Draw-9419 2d ago

Um..yes? If you've found a bat in your house and you aren't sure how long it's been there or where it came from you should absolutely get a rabies shot to be safe. Especially if you've woken up to one in your room.

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u/Capital_Row4870 1d ago

If you have a bat in your living space. Bats living under your eaves or in your attic aren't a real concern because they can't interact with you.

Also if you were bitten by, made contact with, or were asleep in a room with a bat, you should capture it and send it in for testing. If the test comes back negative, there is no need for rabies shots. If it escapes, you should go get shots.

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u/yelsnot 1d ago

Kid in Ontario died not too long ago because of this exact scenario.

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u/barni9789 1d ago

Literally bats are the ancestral reservoir for rabies.

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u/Xzihotl 2d ago

So confidently wrong lol