Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bracken Cave in Texas is home to 15-20 million Mexican free-tailed bats. Female bats head to the cave every year to give birth.

So many Mexican free-tail bats fly out of the Bracken Bat Cave on a summer evening that their spiral path creates a vortex of rising air that helps lift the bats, drawing out even more. In a few hours ...

Down a narrow gravel drive and a short walk past cactus and scrub cedars outside San Antonio is a gaping, dark cave mouth, 60 feet wide, nestled at the bottom of a steep hill. This is the Bracken Bat ...

It's hard out there for a bat: not only do the flying mammals suffer from a terrible public image (bats do not, as rumor has it, roost in hair or necessarily carry rabies) but their very existence is ...

Given the public interest in the issue, the city of San Antonio should release its two studies on the bats at Bracken Cave. In response to wide civic concern this summer about how the proposed ...

Courtesy Bat Conservation International San Antonio City Council members voted unanimously Thursday to approve a public-private deal to purchase the Bracken Bat Cave, preventing development. The 1,521 ...

SAN ANTONIO - Texas happens to be the battiest state in the country. It is home to 32 of the 47 species of bats found in the United States, and thanks to theTexas Wildlife and Parks Department and Bat ...

The city of San Antonio and conservation groups teamed up to buy land threatened with development near the Bracken Bat Cave, summer home to... In Texas, The World's Biggest Bat Colony Is Saved From ...