A couple of weeks ago, a bat flew into the Maths hub, got hit by the ceiling fan, and fell to the ground with a broken wing. It's possibly one of the most serious animal injuries that I've seen - not that I've seen a lot, but it had a bone jutting out from the broken wing, and was squealing in pain, presumably (who wouldn't, if you had a bone sticking out of you).
But anyway, there wasn't much we could do to the bat, since we were not vets, and I've not sure what a vet could have done in this case either. In the end, the cleaner helped to bring the injured bat to the tree in the garden, where I think must have been its final resting ground.
One thing that struck me, as I was handling the bat, was the wing structure of the bat. A bat being a mammal, would have followed a path of evolution similar to humans, and you can see up-close that the bones in the wings were shaped like the hand of a human (it was the first time I've seen a bat this close. I've only seen them flying around at night, and detected them using a bat detector/ultrasound microphone)
However, if you were to encounter a similar situation with bats, you should take note that bats may have rabies, and it could potentially spread to you, if you were bitten by a bat (i guess this is where the vampire legends originate from) or if the blood from the bat comes into contact with an open wound, eyes, ears, etc. For more information, I'd suggest you check out this website. :)
