Naturalist disproves myths about bats
DeKALB – Dan Peterson normally keeps his pet bats in his garage, but he brought them to the DeKalb Park District on Saturday for everyone to see.
Peterson, a bat naturalist and former carpenter, owns four African straw-colored fruit bats and two Egyptian fruit bats. He showed his bats to a crowd of more than 200 people at the Haish Gym to debunk myths about the winged mammals.
The event, the inaugural Incredible Bat Show, drew about twice as many people as expected, program director Colleen Belmont said.
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