how is a bat born?
<answer> A bat is born naked and blind and pale. His mother makes a pocket of her tail and catches him. <context> A Bat Is Born (from The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell) A bat is born. Naked and blind and pale. His mother makes a pocket of her tail. And catches him. He clings. to her long fur. By his thumbs and toes and teeth.