# Giant bat

B giant bat 

Difficulty

3

Attacks

Bite 1d6

B giant bat 

Difficulty

3

Attacks

Bite 1d6

Base level

2

Base experience

22

Speed

22

Base AC

7

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

2 (Quite rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

30

Nutritional value

30

Size

Small

Resistances

None

Resistances conveyed

None

A giant bat:

 can fly.

 has no hands.

 is an animal.

 is carnivorous.

 is normally generated hostile.

 wanders randomly.

 can be seen through infravision.

Reference

monst.c#line1127

The giant bat, B, is a monster in NetHack.  Its high speed and relatively damaging attack can take inexperienced players by surprise and contributes frequently to their deaths.
Normal bats become giant bats when they grow up.
Players polymorphed into giant bats are permanently stunned.

Eating the corpse
Eating a giant bat corpse will stun you for 60 turns.[1]  Pets, however, may eat them without penalty.

Encyclopedia entry

A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn
as it made its nightly rounds and came in through the window
which had been left healthfully open.  It then proceeded to
circle the room in the aimless fat-headed fashion habitual
with bats, who are notoriously among the less intellectually
gifted of God's creatures.  Show me a bat, says the old
proverb, and I will show you something that ought to be in
some kind of a home.
[ A Pelican at Blandings, by P. G. Wodehouse ]

 

References

↑ eat.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 843

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