Volume 12
Issue 3
- MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES FOR 1995
- ON THE COVER
- Protected at Last: The Hibernia Mine
- The North American Bats and Mines Project Begins Work
- THE LIVES OF Mexican Free-tailed Bats
- Saving Our Free-tailed Bats
- The Pacific Flying Fox Trade: A New Dilemma
- Special Vampire Control Video Produced for Latin America
- Bat adoptions make great conservation gifts!
- Look for “Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats”*
- WISH LIST
SIGHTS LIKE THIS are one of the truly great wonders of the world. As Mexican free-tailed bat colonies leave their caves each summer evening to go out and feed, the sky is filled with bats and the sound of thousands and thousands of wings softly beating the air. Some colonies have so many bats that the emergence may go on for more than three hours. Eventually, the colony disperses, and the bats spend much of the night on the wing, covering thousands of square miles of surrounding countryside, eating countless insects, many of which are agricultural pests.
PHOTO BY MERLIN D. TUTTLE