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Sound asleep , too , it was , even when I got up to look at it more closely . It turned out to be a common fruit bat , farther north than it should be for their usual range . We do n't have a net , and neither H. nor I wanted to try catching it in a towel , so I called the Humane Society . I shamelessly pretended to be afraid it might be rabid , and they sent someone out within the hour . He had a net , and the bat was duly captured and placed in a bat box , to be released to the wild , the fellow promised me , somewhat to the south on his rounds .

Why are they trying to capture the animal ?
They feel it may sick .