“On the Bat’s Back I Do Fly after Summer Merrily”

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Breedlove, Byron
• Description:
  Biho Takashi (active ca. 1890‒1930). Bat in Moon, ca. 1905. Color woodblock print on paper, 9 1/4 in x 9 9/16 in/23.5 cm x 24.3 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Gift of the Estate of Dr. Eleanor Z. Wallace, 2007.32.4
  
  The only mammals that can fly, bats play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. They devour large amounts of insect pests; pollinate hundreds of species of fruit, including avocados, bananas, and mangoes; and spread seeds of a number of plants, including cacao, figs, and nuts. This month’s cover image, Bat in Moon by Biho Takashi, portrays a soaring bat silhouetted across a full moon. A fitting caption can be taken from Ariel’s words in Act V, Scene I, of The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “On the bat’s back I do fly after summer merrily.”
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chiroptera/microbiology Disease Reservoirs/microbiology Fungi Mycoses Zoonoses
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; 29(7):1499-1501
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10310362
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  About the Cover
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:92c9bb0a5d1ee3855aca098c54cde03db17faaa76f16929be7a8702c7e92b5fa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/130838/cdc_130838_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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