Critter

The Mexican Free-Tailed Bat

There are 26 million people in Texas and vast hordes of flying insects. Lucky for us, there are also about a gazillion hungry bats. On a warm night last summer, Juanita here took a break from her bug hunt to talk with me under a cottonwood tree near Boerne. Click here to read more about the Mexican free-tailed bat.

Illustrations and text by Matt Diffee

November 2012

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