I remember Dr. No, although I've not read the book. And I recall that island, but did not know it was a guano factory. Ursula Andress sang that annoying song "Under The Mango Tree," and it played over and over and over. ♫Underneath the Mango Tree Me honey and me make boolooloop soon♫ Now I won't be able to get it out of my head. It's gonna be on an infinite boolooloop.
Dunno, about “grown” or bats but there is a coffee bean that is found in Civet poop and it is deemed to be uh....great, I suppose. I’m not too sure about the “greatness” of the coffee but it’s the world’s most expensive coffee.
I would think that there's lot of stuff across the globe grown in soil that's been amended with guano. It's still a significant source of fertilizer in many nations.
That's the stuff I rememberers er reading about some time age. Yes I remember it being deemed "great" coffee
Maybe we could write a new story titled The Emperor's Coffee. Actually, it kind of writes itself, don't it?
Ya know, I will probably eat just about anything that doesn’t eat me first but I just can seem to get the words Yum-Yum mentally attached to any food that is raised using bat poop. Road apples, cow pies and even rabbit tracks but bat poop........just doesn’t do it for me.
I find it interesting that its poop is so valued as a fertilizer. I can understand horse & cow & rabbit poop because of the nutrients in grass. And I can understand seagull poop because of the nutrients in fish. But bats mostly eat insects.
Mosquitos are probably like any other insect in that they are mostly protein and a blood filled anopheles would have a lot of aminos but that would help out the bat. So, how that breaks down into the necessary nitrates, potassium and phosphates that constitute most fertilizers (and the makings of gunpowder) I dunno.
There are a lot of good videos on YouTube where people have rescued the little bats that were orphaned, or even adult bats who had gotten hurt and needed care. They seem very gentle, and are really cute little fellows close up !
Amazing, aren't they? Funny how people can have such extreme [and opposite] reactions to them. I guess I can understand how putting wings on what apparently are rodents (but are not) might seem like giving them a tactical advantage. I just read that bats are an Order all on their own. There are 19 Orders of mammals in the world. Bats are the second largest Order of mammals after Rodents. According to some sources (numbers vary widely for some reason), together they make up nearly 70% of all Mammalia's 4,660 species.