A family spent a weekend in a rural house in Leppävirta, Finland, had a surprising partner on his trip to the sauna. Venla Sahakangas and her family spent a weekend in a cabin when, when they entered the sauna they ran into a bat.
“When I entered the sauna, something flew just in front of my face and thought it was a bird,” Sahakangas said. But it was soon clear that it was a bat, according to the middle .
The family left the doors open so that the bat came out, thinking that it had disappeared under the banks. However, half an hour later he reappeared flying in the room. When we left all the doors open and during the night it disappeared.
Burciélagos researcher Thomas Lilley, from the Natural History Museum of Finland, believes that the animal accidentally entered the Sauna building. It is not usual for a bat in the sauna to be, but its daytime hiding place could well be in the building’s roof structures. It could have been lost inside, for example, by the fireplace, he said.
These animals are nocturnal and avoid light. Therefore, a bat that has been lost in a closed place will not necessarily leave during the day, but will try to wait until dusk. In such situations, it is best to leave the doors open and leave. During the night, the bat is likely to leave.
“Bats can be pathogenic carriers. If a person who enters the naked sauna even receives a small scratch or bite, the situation worsens. I prefer not to use the sauna and let the animal go alone,” he said.
