By this point it's hard to make out the entrance to the cave. But you can still smell it. Return to the beginning of this story. Your Bat IQ BCI Photo Upper Left . Merlin Tuttle, at Bracken Cave about 20 miles north of downtown San Antonio, plays down the danger of the fungal disease histoplasmosis.
Bats are dirty.
Bats are among the cleanest mammals, and often groom themselves and other roost mates.