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Moving in Baby Steps

By Mitch Gilley Well, it’s beginning. Many of you have tracked the progress of the new facility via our Facebook updates, but now the preliminary stages of moving in are

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The Fridge Incident

By Mitch Gilley It’s funny what you end up daydreaming about when you have to prepare a giant bin of fruit every day, the fruit bat’s nightly ration.  For us,

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Poppy’s Happy Life

By Mitch Gilley I’m loathe to admit that I have favorite bats among those we care for, but I am particularly drawn to a few of them. There’s Ichabod, for

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A Day With The Insect Bats

Caring for microbats can be very, very different than caring for megabats. The latter can be small, but the former are tiny.  Further along that line, for the most part

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Mr. Impley

Mr. Impley, a Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis)  was retired to Bat World with over a dozen more of his kind in 1994. The bats were involved in DNA research.

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Andy

It is with a heavy heart that we bring you the news that Andy, a Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), passed away on June 3, 2016, two months after his

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Saving the Palestine Bats

The city of Palestine, Texas loves their bats. They have had thousands of bats roosting in their downtown buildings for several years. And even though they sometimes create an odor,

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Daffodil

March 2006 – April 11, 2016 Daffodil, a street rescue that came to us in 2006 with an embedded collar, passed away on April 11th, 2016 from a tumor that

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Happy Bat Appreciation Day!

Thank you, wonderful bat people, for supporting our rescue efforts for the most underappreciated mammal on earth! Please enjoy a few of  our most recent videos 🙂 Fruit Bats play

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