*BAT* in Yorùbá cosmology connote lots of meanings:
*In it’s physical forms:* BAT is a kind of mammal that possesses two different characteristics in combinations in it’s body structure. The physics of animal looks exactly like a rat, but tends to behave exactly like a bird. Rats don’t fly, but has all it takes to produce anything in it’s given might. God endowed rat with different metabolism in living things. In the aspect of rat’s wings that made it differ from other rats on earth, the wing is also incomparable with the feathers of any kinds of birds. Hence the sayings “kò-kò-ṣẹyẹ ni àdán” (birth is unlike-rat-nor-birds).
*In It’s Spiritual nature*: To the Yorùbá people, virtually, “àdán dorí kodò, ó wòṣe ẹyẹ, ẹyẹ tó bá ṣe bí àdán, yóò pọ̀jẹ̀” (bat hung itself downwards, any birds that tries to compete with bat would vomits blood). The excerpt simply means, the inner spirits of bat in the Yorùbá world-views is higher to be compared to any birds. The only two facet mammal with a spiritual influence on Yorùbá sacrificial rites. Hence, the sayings “Bí a ò rí àdán, àá fi òòbẹ̀ ṣe ẹbọ” (In the absent of bat, òòbẹ̀ “a small kinds of bat species” can be used in lieu).
*In It’s Sociology:* Yorùbá sees bat as the only mammals that has every opportunity to fly both in the daytime and nights. This depicts it’s functional sociological emblems like rat with day and night movements. Also, birds flies at lengths on daytime, but no birds flies at nights.
*If BAT has all these characteristics, who ever has such among men shall be seen with a special and different outlooks in Yorùbá world… Asíwájú Bọ́lá Ahmed Tinúbú is the only one we can have in such complex terms like a bat.*
Mo júbà ooo
Ìbà Ọlọ́run
Ìbà ènìyàn
Ìbà Ọmọdé
Ìbà àgbà
Ìbà ọkùnrin
Ìbà obìnrin
Ìbà oyún inú
Ìbà àṣẹ́ẹ̀bí
Ẹ jẹ́ kó yẹ mí ooo 
*(c)*
*ÌȘỌ̀LÁ Sauban Àlàdé Orí-Àrán lèmi ń jẹ́*
*Ẹ̀ṣọ́ Ọmọ Ọlọ́tà Odò*
*Eégún Aláwàdà gbogbo Ìlú Èkó àti Àwó
