Now with video, hopefully. This is an update to my earlier post with the addition of motion. This was taken at a recent bat emergence at Bracken Cave, Texas. This colony is the world’s largest concentration of mammals. It is a maternal colony of Mexican Free-tail bats that gathers each summer to birth their pups. 20 million bats (estimated) leave the cave each night at this time of the year as the pups are old enough to fly with their mothers to feed on mostly agricultural pests to our south east. This nightly exodus last about 3 hours every summer night.
#Nature #iNaturalist #Bats #batconservation #batconservationinternational #brackencavepreserve