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Originally Posted by Rick V
Also bets can not take flight from the ground, they have to drop into flight, a grounded bat is a dead bat.
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Dead? All they have to do is crawl up on something. They are tenacious crawlers. I had a Brown bat living in the bottom of a tall urn on my porch. When he went on the hunt I assume he crawled to the top and then took off.
At least some bat species can take off from the ground. I once saw a video of a bat taking off vertically. I'll try to find it and post it here.
Here it is:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/how-bats-take-flight-revealed-by-x-ray/277582/