Overview
- The occupant returned from vacation and on Sunday discovered roughly 30 bats, including newborns, had entered her Günzburg apartment through an apparently tilted window, police in Kempten reported.
- Helpers from the local animal shelter located the animals hiding in a wardrobe and were able to carefully carry them outside so the flat was made bat-free with no reported harm to the bats or people.
- Conservationists say the incident reflects a normal late-summer pattern in which maternity groups break up and young bats make exploratory flights that can lead them to fly into open or tilted windows.
- Experts warn that trapped bats often call and can attract others, and they advise opening windows wide after sunset to let bats escape, fitting insect screens, and covering water containers and plant pots to prevent accidental entrapment.
- The episode follows a heat-driven period of nighttime ventilation and conservation guidance from NABU and local authorities that closing or screening windows during absences can prevent painful deaths for animals and reduce repeat incursions.