You really make me laugh with some of your analogies. Really? A Scottish bat? 😂
We had a bat problem years ago. Our chimney cracked in an earthquake so instead of rebuilding it we just re-roofed over the chimney. We still have a very large enclosed woodstove in the middle of the room that is unusable (someday we'll have to take a large window out to get it outside because the doors are too small). One summer, a couple years after we re-roofed, I heard something banging in the stove. It turns out that we had bats in our attic and one had fallen into the hole at the top of the chimney.
I put on some gloves and carefully grabbed it and put it out of the window and it flew off. Soon we started getting bats falling down the chimney every day. One day in August I went to put a bat out the window and it bit into my glove. The bats had never done that before but I put it out the window and a few seconds later I found a tiny pup clinging to my sleeve!
It got back to it's mother and we got the roof problem fixed (during a part of the year when the bats were out hibernating) but that was a very frustrating summer! It really would have helped if we knew American 'bat'.
ehhehe you can ask taxi drivers in Manhattan, for sure they would know how to say "get out of the way" in a way that even bats understand. There are Pimsleur tapes just for about anything, check if they have "dialects and slangs of American bats" :)
About bat stories, I remember one year when I was still in College, we came back home and we found our housemate half naked standing on the bed shouting in terror. There was a bat that was flying around him and he was too scared to go anywhere (apparently he has been there for about 30 minutes). Luckily for him we can back home to save the bat from his shrieks, can you imagine how painful and scary that would have been for the bat? :)
It always exasperates me at how somewhat reasonable people simply loose all reason when a bat enters the room. The jumping around screaming almost insures that someone's going to get a bat to the face!