Today's "tail" is about a cute little bat.
--Tucson Citizen, March 22, 1956.
Meet a genuine “pipistrellus hesperus,” courtesy of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. We’ll have you know this is a rather distinguished little character, because it is the smallest of 2,000 different kinds of bat found in the world. Raymond Anderson, a well driller of 4510 N. Brown Ave., spotted the little rascal on the mast of his well rig the other morning when he went to his job site out in the Tucson Mountains. Thinking it was a baby bat he took it home and the family decided to give it to the museum. About one inch long and mouse colored, this variety of the bat family is the “lone wolf” type and goes alone rather than in flocks. They eat insects and are not considered dangerous. If he survives the eye dropper feeding routine he will have an honored place in the museum bat cave project scheduled for construction late this year.
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