Bracken Bat Cave

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26101 FM3009
San Antonio, TX 78266
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Home to 20 to 40 million Mexican Freetail bats. Helps control insect pests by eating thousands of pounds of insects per night. Owned by Bat Conservation International. Not open to the public without guided tour.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken_Cave
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Coordinates:   29°41'13"N   98°21'9"W

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  • There are so many bats that when they fly out at night or back in the morning, their signal is picked up by local airport and weather radar as if it were a large rain storm.
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