I have seen them referred to as Brazilian free-tailed bats in other written material and wondered if they were mistaken and should have said Mexican or are there two distinct varieties of free-tailed bats? What's the answer, Jim?
Fritz ________________________________ From: Nico Escamilla [mailto:pitboun...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:26 PM To: jerryat...@aol.com Cc: Texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Another LeBlanc article on caving : Kickapoo Cavern SP : Seems like bats no longer want to be Mexican and they turned Brasilian, LOL must be all the violence going on :-P On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, <jerryat...@aol.com<mailto:jerryat...@aol.com>> wrote: Into the dark: Spelunk in the raw abyss of Kickapoo Cavern By Pamela LeBlanc<http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html?service=popup&authorContact=822622&authorContactField=0> AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Updated: 7:24 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010 Published: 5:07 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010 Besides the wild cave tours, which are offered by reservation only on Saturdays, the park is known for its bat population. From April through September, a colony of more than half a million Brazilian free-tailed bats swoops out of Stuart Bat Cave, which is slightly smaller than Kickapoo Cavern, on a nightly mission to feast on insects. http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html
