Check out a video of the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat:
https://www.facebook.com/batproblems/videos/2412623575444413/
Fun bat facts:
These bats are insectivores, dining and devouring on a large number of insects including
corn earworm moths. Bats 🦇 save farmers millions on pesticides. 
🏼 Bats are a natural pesticide!
This makes them a definite economic asset to farming communities.
Did you know? Bats usually collect together in the same room to sleep. These bats do! They have a range of complex social behaviors. They use scent marking and vocalizations to communicate with each other. 🦇🦇 They use a different set of sounds for echolocation to navigate and find food. Very Interesting!
Another fun fact – Bats involved in a war? Did you know?
“Free-tailed bats have supported several American war efforts as well. When Confederacy ports were blockaded in the latter part of 1863, a gun powder factory was established near San Antonio. The powder’s most valuable ingredient, saltpeter, was made from local bat guano. During World War 11, major free-tailed bat caves near San Antonio were carefully guarded during top-secret research coded “Project X-Ray.”* The U.S. Air Force hoped to use bats as carriers of small incendiary bombs that would be dropped on Japan. The project began to lose favor when escaped bat bombardiers set fire to air base barracks and a general’s car. After being passed on to the Navy, and finally the Marine Corps, the project was canceled.” –
BY MERLIN D. TUTTLE
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