People, including cavers, often associate cave animals with bats. I think we often neglect the other critters. For example, name a cave that is devoted to the preservation of Red-headed Centipede.
Or any other cave-dwelling centipede. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Scolopendra_heros.jpg I saw a 6 inch long centipede in Brehmer Cave near New Braunfels, around 1996. I remember the color patter was maroon and black, but can't remember which color was the dominating color - Maybe black with some maroon parts ? I can only imagine cavers with lots of experience have seen hundreds of these. Of course, you probably would not want to crawl around in a cave with 100's of venomous centipedes. Would you ? On a related note, I have not seen a horned-toad in the wild in over 30 years. And on a totally different note, Last night, I was driving around 2 a.m. in the morning from Houston to Gatesville ( northwest of Temple ) via the small towns around Milano, and I saw stars for the first time in almost a year. I did not have time to even get out of the car and look at the stars. There was still too much light on the horizon and from traffic to really get a good look at them.
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