Elusive and mysterious, these ghosts of the night, with us since prehistoric times, endowed with superpowers, stealthy and resistant to the worst viruses, leading an intense social life, have something to fascinate and inspire us. How do bats echo us?
Let’s take a look at extraordinary animals, endowed with superpowers and who live their lives upside down, in a space-time other than our own (perhaps that’s why they fascinate us as much as they frighten us ) : bats, furtive, elusive and mysterious… Unloved and poorly known, they nevertheless have something to inspire and question us. Our destinies are linked from prehistory (where we rubbed shoulders in the caves) to the environmental and health crises that link us today to these ghosts of the night…
With Laurent Tillonbiodiversity manager of the ONF for the work The Ghosts of the Night, Bats and Men, published by Actes Sud.