Mexican Free-Tailed Bats, Texas

Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic

Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out of Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve in Texas at dusk. The bats are hungry for pests like corn earworm moths nutrition to keep milk flowing for their pups. Every spring millions of free-tails return to this cave.

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