We were playing a game by candlelight in an island cabin in northern Maine last night when this squeaking baby bat (about 1" -- that crack is just the space between the fireplace and the flooring) fell from the ceiling. We scooped it gently onto a paper plate and transferred it up on a ledge on the stepped chimney. Suddenly its mom swooped down, scooped him up in her wing like it was a pouch and crawled up the entire chimney that way until she had her baby safely upside down in the rafters again!

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