The Bat Crisis of 2024

The Bat Crisis of 2024

Articles, Bats, News, Rehabilitation, Release, Rescue

In July, a heat-wave with temperatures reaching 118 degrees had a deadly impact on a huge maternity roost of Mexican free-tailed bats located on the underside of a freeway overpass in Bakersfield. Surviving baby bats were dispersed to wildlife rescue centers across...

Living in Harmony with Bats

Bats

Bats are mammals, just like humans, which mean that all bats are warm-blooded, have fur, bear live young, and feed their babies milk. There are over 1,100 different species of bats in the world making up almost a quarter of all mammal species. They live on every...