Well, to be honest, I knew very little about bats until I actually started graduate school. I've been interested in biology my whole life, so it was a natural subject for me to major in at college. I decided during college that animal behavior was the subject in particular that I wanted to study, and the majority of the work I did before graduate school involved birds. In fact, I had never even seen a bat until I got to college and that was entirely by accident. One day while out taking some pictures, I heard a strange sound, sort of like "thip-thip-thip". I looked up and saw a bird that was flying very strangely. When the "bird" landed on the trunk of a tree, it was pretty obvious what I was really seeing. Needless to say, I snapped a picture of this little critter, shown here:

I know, I'm not the world's greatest photographer, but I do try! :)

This was probably a little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), so here's a better picture of one:

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