Word: bats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second period saw the home team speed up the action, but goalie Harding and his stellar defense men held the Nassau at bat without too much trouble. Then Harding (Dick) netted his second tally on a pass from center Al Everts at 11:00, and the Crimson moved out into a 3 to 0 lead, with Olie Taylor in the penalty box, at 19:33 on a solo goal by Captain Johnny Paine...
...Aged five, Dali pushed a boy smaller than himself off a railingless bridge. "He landed on some rocks 15 feet below. I ran home to announce the news." That same year Dali fell in love with a wounded bat. Says he: "I picked up the bat, crawling with ants . . . but instead of kissing it, I gave it such a vigorous bite with my jaws that I almost split...
Last winter a group of Cornell students joined Mohr in a thorough exploration of the bat caves in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania. The limestone ridges there are honeycombed with small caves, but Aitken's Cave, near Milroy, is the most accessible. All banded bats were found in the same cave as in previous years. Even bats that had been carried off and released far away were back again. Only once did Mohr find an intruder: this stray bat's own cave had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer...
Charles Mohr is not the only bat-bander. Don Griffin of Harvard has banded thousands of bats in New England, had also noted the homing urge. Bats from a cave near the coast were released 15 miles at sea. Two days later they were back in their own cave...
There are a few varieties of bat which do not hibernate, including the Red Bat, the Hoary, and the Silver-haired. Some live in the forests of Washington or Canada, eating insects during the summer, but when winter comes they migrate southward...