Amazing Bats of Bracken Cave

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by Catherine Clarke Fox no date given


There is a cave in Texas called Bracken Cave. In that cave, they have millions of bats. In the summer the bats fly out of the cave every night to get food. When they fly out of the cave there are about 20 million of them. You call a group of bats a colony. When the bats fly out the mother bats find their pups by smelling them. The floor of the Bracken Cave is covered in guano (bat poop) which things like fungi and bacteria use as food. Bats also help us. They can eat a lot of insects in one night.
I chose this Article to write about because it is almost Halloween and bats can be spooky. I think this article was very interesting. I would like to see the cave when all the bats fly out. I think it will look really cool with all the bats flying out at one time. I love that the bats eat a lot of bugs because mosquitoes and gnats are really annoying.