Our common free-tailed bat is _Tadarida brasiliensis_, subspecies
_mexicana_. So it is perfectly acceptable to use either the species
or subspecies epithet as a common name.
Jim (currently in Elizabethtown, KY)
On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:40 PM, "Fritz Holt"
<fh...@townandcountryins.com> wrote:
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> wrote:
Into the dark: Spelunk in the raw abyss of Kickapoo Cavern
By Pamela LeBlanc
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
