The Count Loves Bats: learning to count using bats!

Bats and Sesame Street!  Just another case of bats being depicted in a fun way - although perhaps still rather cliche/mythical manner considering they are chilling with Count Dracula!  At least here they are quite cute so maybe kids who saw this would LIKE the bats in the clip.

Romanian flag

Interestingly enough Count Dracula makes me think of Romania (Transylvania is where the original 'Count' was supposed to be from) and a quick search revealed that indeed Romania has its own Romanian Bat Protection Association (here)!

Furthermore, they COUNT bats!  (Sorry I couldn't resist- but really... look there they are counting bats!)


Oddly there are no vampire bats in Europe so where the mythical connection between bats and vampires came from in this region remains something of a mystery to me but I am sure someone somewhere has a hypothesis regarding where this mythical relationship originated.  Of further interest is what made Sesame Street producers decide that they needed a 'count to count' is interesting and clever.  I am not sure how many kids loved him growing up but I would like to be counted in that number!

Transylvanian coat of arms (Transylvania is a historical region of Romania).