‘Amazingly,’ they survived a harrowing experience.
Crowds watch as Mexican free-tailed bats are released by Mary Warwick, Wildlife Director at Houston Humane Society at the Waugh Bridge Bat Colony in Houston, Texas, on December 28, 2022.Hundreds of bats rescued from the winter storm that struck the US over the past week were finally able to return to their homes in Texas last night.
But the Houston Human Society quickly jumped into action with a “cold-shock” bat rescue initiative at Waugh Bridge and another colony in Brazoria County. You can check out some neat videos of the effort on the Houston Humane Society’s. “Amazingly, most of bats have survived,” the group said on Facebook on December 24th. By December 26th, they had rescued 1,544 bats.
Fortunately, the weather was just right for their release yesterday. The Human Society even set up a Facebookto invite the public to watch the bats’ homecoming. Some 700 bats were brought back to their colony under Waugh Bridge Wednesday evening. “Hundreds” more were returned to a separate colony at the Pearland Fite Road Bridge in Brazoria County.
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