Nancy,
Two caving parties on which I have been have reported encountering a
porcupine within the cave. They seem to prefer caves for their lodging.
Fritz
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From: Nancy Weaver [mailto:nan...@io.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:50 PM
To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
A very small cave at CBSPark has a small little cave named after such that has
porcupine's in it quite often.
Fritz Holt fh...@townandcountryins.com wrote: Nancy,
Two caving parties on which I have been have reported encountering a
porcupine within the cave. They seem to prefer caves for their
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Subject: RE: [Texascavers] bats cats and mice
Lots of nice responses, thanks all. The consensus would appear to be
that a great variety of mammals (and others) utilize caves to an equal
extent as bats. And that all use the cave as a dwelling rather than a
habitat. I'd surmise
Lots of nice responses, thanks all. The consensus would appear to be
that a great variety of mammals (and others) utilize caves to an
equal extent as bats. And that all use the cave as a dwelling rather
than a habitat. I'd surmise that the examples found 'way back into
the cave' are
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
Usage of caves by bats depends upon several factors, two of the most
important (which are likely linked) are ceiling temperature/passage
humidity and life cycle stage (hibernating and popping out pups).
Layered upon the 2 big factors are several
and jikes, I'd imagine that some bats think the same about us: oh,
bat caves are very exciting places to live, but these silly humans
ruin a perfectly good home/environment/planet ...
Bat caves are very exciting places to investigate and study, although
some cavers fell they ruin a
Long and Short of it. Some bats live in the twilight zone area (entrances) some
live very deep in the cave IE Honey Creek I'm sure folks have had bats land on
them deep in the spring entrance of Honey Creek. Some bats of the same species
don' live in caves at all some live in bridges,tree
Nancy Weaver wrote:
someone mentioned to me a trivial pursuit question regarding what mammal
lives in caves? the answer of course is bats . . . which got me to
wondering if bats habitually live any further into a cave than the
bears, cats etc which use caves as dens. I've personally seen
Nancy, When I worked at Carlsbad Caverns, we found mice and mouse scat in the
lunchroom. We suspected they hitched a ride on the elevator either somewhere on
the frame or in the boxes of food which were taken down in the elevator. One
summer, we also found a couple of mice in one of the
In Borneo I observed that most species of bat which commonly inhabit the caves
of Gunung Buda (Sarawak, Malaysia), including some cave-roosting fruit bats,
tend to roost near the entrances. There, it is the swiftlets (birds) which
travel kms into the caves. They echolocate using clicks. They
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