Abstract
On September 4, 1977, three others and I found the partly dehydrated body of a Hoary Bat, Lasiurus cinereus, hanging from a barbed wire fence separating two areas of grassland at the north side of Beaverhill Lake. The bat, an adult female, had been caught on a barb along the upper strand of the fence and had been unable to free itself. On closer examination, it was observed that the barb had penetrated its uropetagium (the membanous skin connecting the hind limbs and tail) on the left side, and the bat had twisted, tangling its left foot and further securing itself to the barb.