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I like:
a flurry of bats
a rally of bats
a flittering of bats
not necessarily in that order.
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a flurry of bats brings to mind
- a flurry of strumpets
- a jam of tarts
- an essay of trollops
- an anthology of pros
- feathering of 'ores
...but that's another story !
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(just a hunch in sticking to the obvious...prolly wrong, but)
A cavern of bats.
A cloister of bats.
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But each one of mine is a subtle pun!
TEd
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TEd>> But each one of mine is a subtle pun!And we would expect nothing less of you. 
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a subtle pun
Mostly subtle enough that I didn't get them (not that it takes that much subtlety) so I'm willing to let them go.
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Couldn't locate bat authority Merlin Tutle so I contacted a spokesman for the the National Bat Conservancy, a Mr Bob Benson, who wrote... A group of bats together in flight is usually referred to as a "flock" although many people in the bat community have been trying to make a "belfry" stick :)
Bob Benson
Public Information Manager
Bracken Campaign Manager
Austin, TX 78716
Web site: www.batcon.orgHmmm! "Flock" is for the birds. I have decided to choose one of the names for the collective flight of bats that you all have offered and to promote that name surreptitiously until it becomes established usage. I'll keep you all informed of my progress. This is gonna be fun. 
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Bat, bat, come under my hat, And I'll give you a slice of bacon; And when I bake, I'll give you a cake, If I am not mistaken. Women used to be afraid bats would get tangled in their hair. So, how about a "snoodful" of bats? Here's URL to dozens of llinks about bats: http://www.batcon.org/home/batlinks.htmlHere's a scary one! Bear cub at petting zoo in Iowa dies of rabies. Used to lick and nip patrons of zoo. No human cases http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r990830b.htm
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I heard something interesting today about bats and hair. It seems that it's the things we put on our hair that attract flying insects, thereby attracting bats that are trying to get at the insects and not at our hair.
I also learned that a very, very small percentage of bats are infected with rabies--something like less than .5% of all bats. I learned this from a journalist who has just written an article on bats.
She also said that the bats that are healthy enough to fly at your hair to feed on insects are the ones that you don't have to worry about having rabies. It's the ones who behave in unnatural ways. She said that bats infected with rabies die very quickly.
I'd been wondering for quite a long while why cavers weren't more concerned about contracting rabies--and I guess it's the fact that most bats don't have rabies.
Now if anybody possesses contrary information, do post here.
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A very close friend of mine, who died suddenly a few years ago, was a well-respected naturalist who also hunted, fished, etc. He told me of a friend, whose name I have forgotten, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on bats until he contracted and died of rabies after exposure to the germ in the air of a cave in (if I remember correctly) Kentucky. A huge flight of bats stirred up a windsotrm and he breathed in dust from bat feces, apparently.
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