by Laura Conaway

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Beautiful

I have it on good sources that NPR's Weekend All Things Considered — or WATC, as we say around here — is planning a segment tomorrow on the rescue of that silver-haired bat in Washington, D.C.

The bat seemed to have gone missing a few days ago, but apparently it was in good hands all along. The good folks from WATC had gone with a bat expert to see it, and the expert decided the bat was dehydrated. They took it to a bat hospital, and now it's doing much, much better. When the weather warms, I'm told, they intend to turn the bat loose again.

And what do you know, the bat's a she. I'm hearing from WATC that the bat is now going by the name of Beautiful, though I'm still holding out for Bat Mitzvah.

UPDATE: The new segment is online — very cool.