While animal control officials sometimes have to remove a bat from a home or office, people need to remember that bats try to avoid humans, Moore said. It is widely believed that bats carry rabies. However, statistics show that less than one half of one percent have it, Moore said. They will fly out. It is a very sophisticated sonar system inaudible to the human ear.
Bats suck our blood.
Vampire bats live in Mexico and Central and South America. There are no vampire bats in the United States. Vampire bats lap, not suck, small amounts of blood. They rarely attempt to feed on humans because human blood is not palatable to them. Bats get entangled in our hair.