One of them, Bracken Cave, is home to 20 million Mexican free-tail bats. The famous colony in Carlsbad Caverns, N.M., has fewer than one million of the creatures. Texas is home to more bats than any other state and while there are no official tallies, BCI estimates that there may be as many as 100 million bats in Texas. It's not the first time Wentworth has stepped up to the plate for bats. Thanks to a resolution introduced by Wentworth in 1995, the bat became the official flying mammal of the state of Texas.
Bats make our lives easier.
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