AA-2026-F4E1F8
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A bat clings to the underside of a corrugated metal overhang, having made the rational decision that a human structure offered better shelter than whatever trees or rocks the landscape provided. The creature has wedged itself into the corner where metal meets concrete beam, a choice that must have seemed intelligent at the time—protected from weather, elevated above ground predators, close enough to the building's corner to feel secure. What the bat did not account for was that humans regard uninvited wildlife in their structures the way accountants regard a decimal point in the wrong column: as a problem requiring immediate correction. The animal's dark form against the pale industrial setting reads as pure accident, a mammal that simply picked the wrong address, unaware that its presence would eventually trigger either a phone call to pest control or a photograph meant to document the trespass.
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Bat roosting under eave, mid-20th century. 1940–1965. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-F4E1F8. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/bat-roosting-under-eave-mid-20th-century.
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year = {1940–1965},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-F4E1F8},
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