Billboard Gives Bats Place to Live, Ability to Talk to Humans

But what do they want to tell us?

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I'm calling bullshit on this one. Or batshit, to be more precise. In an oddball effort to foster interspecies understanding, designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko claim to have developed a billboard that serves as a habitat for bats and uses "bat voice-recognition software" to transform the winged creatures' squeaks and shrieks into human speech. Puh-lease. So-called translations of bat chat include cutesy crap like, "Taking off for another insect snack." Puh-uh-lease! More likely, the flying rodents are saying, "Let's go on a killing spree and drink human blood!" Check out Woebken's website, with its unnerving soundtrack of chirps and squeals and uber-creepy video.

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