Israel's chiropterologist on bats

Bats get bad press. Short-sighted and cave-dwelling, they generally make the news only when carrying disease, transfiguring into vampires, or else lending their name to paranoiac military commanders (e.g. Colonel ‘Bat’ Guano, in Dr. Strangelove).  All of which is grossly unfair — at least according to Yossi Yovel, a professor of zoology at Tel Aviv University,... The post For Israel’s foremost chiropterologist, every bat is a mitzvah appeared first on The Forward.