For the love of bats
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2023
- Texas millionaire David Bamberger was so enamored with the bats he saw at the renowned Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio, and was so concerned about threats to the flying mammals' natural habitat, that in the late 1990s he built the world's largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling ranch near Johnson City. For a long time, no bats showed up. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on what happened once they did.
#bats @BatConservation
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Bats are so cute and essential ❣️🦇🩷🦇🩷🦇
This morning I saw bats flying. They sound different than regular birds. It's almost like a whisper of the wind.
They are not birds, but mammals.
Bats are amazing creatures. Sounds like an ingenious idea Tom build a bat cave. Maybe this can happen in more areas.
Pest control without the pesticides. Thanks for this story. And congratulations to the newlyweds.
Bats are neat !!
It's true about the name "hand wing" (Chiroptera). A bat's wings are its hands, not its arms.
I've been a bat fan since about 2003, when my daughter found a "moving leaf" in our garage. Turned out to be a live baby bat! I turned it over to a wildlife rehabber the next day. She raised and released it, a few weeks later.
I quickly began to wonder how the bat arrived in our garage and, discovered a small bat colony - they were living in our attic!!! We enjoyed them for several years until one showed up in our bathroom light one day. I captured it and released it. We also had a quano mess in the attic - so we decided it was time to excavate them...humanely. We covered the opening so they could get out but not get back in. I miss them at nights in the summer, my daughter and I used to spread a blanket on the driveway and lay there and watch them come out - really fascinating and beautiful!
Seeing bats In Staten Island is always cool. It's pretty rare, but still very fun.
If you build it they will come
I’m afraid of bugs,
so bats are my friends!
They have a face only a mother could love...❤
Really bats are kinda cute.....
Look!! Behind you!!!
It's a BAT!!!
( the sounds of squealling and hollerin...as they rush out the door..)
ahhhh yes isn't that lovely?
That’s for sure
That was cool to learn about.
If you're ever in Houston, come on down to the Waugh Bridge bat colony (Waugh and Allen Parkway, just west of downtown). They live here year-round, numbering around 250-300 thousand. They've survived the floods from Hurricane Harvey and the 2021 deep freeze and are an amazing sight.
Very cool! 🦇💕
❤BATS!!!
Great story, thanks. Bat Conservation International does amazing work. I love their magazine and Bracken Cave must be seen in person!
I consider myself a bat watcher. I started out as a bird watcher. When I lived in the country I loved to row my boat out on the pond and watch the bats come out at dusk. They would fly back and forth from one end of the pond and back. Even in town I watch for bats. I have many favorite places to watch bats. Once you know what you are looking for it gets easy to spot them. Once the birds are settled in for the night and just before dark you can see bats. You have to learn their flight patterns so you don't confuse them with the birds that are late for bed.
WOW that's awesome 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
What was the music playing at the end?
He can have them bats for $170K.
Those bats not them bats.
@@davidj8658 In Texas people say stuff like "Them thar folks ain't my kind of people." Texans are something else.
Bat's
in the Native American tradition represent
REBIRTH
They serve an ecological purpose.
I'm Batman! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
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I know that most living creatures are here for a reason, but 🦇 bats 😭 have to be the most God awful 😂 looking things ever! A cross between a bird and a rat? No thanks!😅
You haven't seen the fruit bats (flying foxes) in Australia.
Some bats' faces look like puppy dogs.
Check out Megabattie in Australia. Fruit bats,or Flying Foxes are adorable and essential for pollination.
His wife reminded me of Lovey, aka Mrs. Howell 😂