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Article: GOING TO BAT; FLYING MAMMALS GET A CHAMPION.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1997
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Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer
Chris Mashburn makes no secret of her affection for the world's only flying mammal.
There are the bat earrings that dangle amid her long, brown hair. And the T-shirt. The bat weather vane, and the numerous hand-painted works of bat art.
When she reaches under the collar of her T-shirt and withdraws a tiny, winged creature about the size of a brazil nut, it is evident she is, as her bumper sticker proclaims, ``batty about bats.''
``This is Milo,'' she says, gingerly dropping a mealworm into his tiny mouth.
Milo, who looks something like a microscopic Chihuahua with leathery ...