by Alex Steelsmith

“[Many bat] biologists… have the zeal of converts, who at some point turned from other mammals
to find a wonderland of scientific mysteries, like bats’ impossibly acrobatic flight… [Bats are]
the only mammals that fly.”
—National Geographic

Flittering, fluttering
agile mammalians
somehow, incredibly,
dance in the sky.

Scientists studying
microchiroptera
gaze in amazement when
acro-bats fly.