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Texas, home to the world's largest remaining bat cave, Bracken Cave, has the most diverse bat fauna of any state.

Valuable guide for general readers and an important reference for professionals.

A guide to the forty-seven species of bats found in United States and Canada, including overview of classification, biology, feeding behavior, habitats, migration, and reproduction.

Describes different types of bats and their physical characteristics, methods of motion, feeding habits, and life cycles.

Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.

Facts about how bats see in the dark, if bats really drink blood, which type of bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour, which bat has a tongue longer than its body, and many more will be found inside this book of fun facts about bats. This bat guidebook proves bats aren’t as creepy as many people think. Readers are sure to enjoy the up-close images of bats in the wild.