Sid took this picture of a mummified bat found at the end of the left hand tunnel. They don't know how old it is. They don't know if it was male or female, they don't know the species of bat and they don't know the cause of death. It has never been touched and is laying a top a relatively thin layer of bat guano. It is too deep in the cave to be a Mexican Freetail (of the famous Carlsbad Bat Flights) and too high to be a fringed-something-or-other (the other known resident species). There are places in the bat cave with guano piles over 30 feet deep, even after 100,000 pounds of guano was mined and sent to California as fertilizer.
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Oopps! Sheela was still logged on... this was supposed to be in my blog.
thanks mom for the post, it made my blog bigger!
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