Endangered bats hanging on in north Alabama. Updated: Nov. 22, ... Alabama caves are winter homes to the gray bat and Indiana bat, both of which are listed as endangered species.

Roosting upside down also protects bats from some of their potential predators, Pavuk said. Hanging from hard-to-reach locations, such as cave ceilings, can help them avoid their enemies, such as ...

These gaps are just right for bats to hang from, a “happy accident,” Arntz says. Technically, the area around the cave is private property, but the Flood Control District encourages people to ...

The state is home to 13 bat species, some hanging around in trees while others finding caves and mines for shelter. Most cave bats in Indiana are listed as state endangered animal and face ...

Gray bats, however, still have easy access to the cave, and it’s the home of a maternity colony during the summer months. They come in droves to roost, “the front part of the cave has this ...

Bats in the eastern United States may just be starting that recovery, he said. While there may only be 2% of the bats left in much of Minnesota, the animals are still hanging on.

Tucked in Kho Muong village, this unspoiled karst cave enchants tourists with vast stone chambers, bat colonies, and ...

Bats need no home during the lush summer nights when the air is full of edible insects. By day they hang in convenient roosts—trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and ...

Bats Are Beneficial. Many bats eat insects like mosquitoes, beetles, moths and flies. They can “consume their body weight in insects in one night, perhaps up to 1,000 insects,” Hammer said.

Clay, N.Y. -- Two miles. That’s literally how close a tiny mouse-eared bat came to potentially killing a $350 million distribution center project in Clay that promises to create 1,000 jobs.