On bats, I must cede to Andrew Joelson and Sandy Peterson on their origin. Tangentially, and of possible interest to bat geneologists, RW fruit eating bats actually followed a different line of evolution to their insect eating namesakes (a nice example of parallel evolution). Perhaps in Glorantha we have fruit eating bats in Pamaltela, where the trolls actively encourage them because they annoy the elves so much, and because they taste a bit like chicken marinated in fruit juice for a week (or so I'm told. eating fruit bat can also help asthma sufferers, apparently).
Cheers
Owen
Owen Jones
Centre for Maths and its Applications, School of Math. Sciences
Australian National University, ACT 0200
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