bats

We might live in a crowded city, but we also share the urban space with lot of animals.Raccoons, skunks, possums and even coyotes roam our streets. And we are part of their ecosystem. These creatures are ambassadors from nature — and reminders that this land isn't ours. How animals are adapting to cities and reshaping the natural World.

Bats love to munch on insects like stink bugs and moths. Some farmers are now relying on the mammals for pest control – and ditching chemicals.

When bats swarm out of caves in the thousands, they almost never crash into each other. Why?

Nightly in the summer months, between 10 and 20 million bats stream out of Bracken Cave to dine on bugs.

The Bracken Cave Preserve, outside of San Antonio, is home to as many as 20 million bats.

Break out the lawn chairs: You can watch the baby bats and their mothers' nightly emergence from several free pedestrian areas near the Congress Avenue Bridge.

A new report from Texas-based Bat Conservation International finds that urgent action is needed to protect bats from disease and climate change.

The city's got the largest urban bat population in the world. The bats draw scores of tourists to the South Congress Bridge year-round, but they could face complications from planned construction nearby.

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

While Halloween may be over, caring about bats never goes out of style.