Bats are misunderstood. People often think the they are ugly, will get caught in your hair and drink blood and have rabies a lot. Most of this is not true.
Vampire bats do drink blood though they only drink livestock blood and do not hurt the animals.The bats only make a tiny bite and drink a tiny bit of blood before leaving. When the animals wake up they are not even itchy from were the bat bit them. A vampire bat is the only type of bat that drinks blood.
A bat is just as likely to have rabies as any other animal. People tested to see how many bats do have rabies and only 10 percent of the tested bats had rabies. Any one bat is less likely to have rabies then a skunk or raccoon.
Bats will not get caught in your hair. They can see fine in the dark especially with echolocation. And they are very shy of people.
Bats are very cute. People probably think they are ugly because they think other bad things about bats and have never seen one up close. But if you look at a bat up close it is actually very cute.
In fact bats actually help us. they help us by pollinating plants, eating insects and spreading seeds. Actually we need bats. There would be to many bugs and some plants such as mangoes, bananas and guavas would not be pollinated if we did not have bats.
Here are some pictures of cute bats.
Daubenton's Bat (picture from static.guim.co.uk):
Flying Fox (picture from Cute Bats tumblr):
