The Today Show came to visit Congress Ave Bridge and Bracken Cave for a story on Bat Tourism.
Featured is our Mexican free-tailed bat Freida and included is our radar video of the Bracken bats.
Too bad they didn’t credit us for either one of these!
We have photographic evidence that our wonderful Myotis velifer, Mothra, can catch her own food on the wing. She’s sure come a long way since we got here as a neo-nate last summer. Love this bat!
Wild Austin yellow (click on link to left for video)
This northern yellow bat (Lasiurus intermedius) was blown out of an Austin palm tree in yesterday morning’s cold gusty winds. In the video, we see her using her feet to help control her “prey”, in this case, hand-fed mealworms. Although it’s hard to hear in the video, the yellow bats in our care have been the noisiest chewers imaginable. We can hear them down the hall in another room as they demolish their dinner!
