There are dozens of bat species in North America; most of them eat insects. Recent investigations
by cryptozoologists suggest that not all nocturnal featherless flying creatures are bats. The apparent
range of the ropen of Papua New Guinea is much larger than previously thought, and these long-
tailed nocturnal creatures, very rare, live in North America. In fact some investigators suspect that
some ropens, in some areas, catch and eat some species of bats at night.
"Three Kentucky cave bat species, the Gray Bat, the Indiana Bat and the Big Eared Bat, are also listed as endangered.
Their populations have declined as a result of human disturbance and habitat destruction."
"Early cave gates were sometimes harmful to natural cave communities, especially bats . . . The standard bat gate now
recommended by the American Cave Conservation Association, Bat Conservation International, USFWS, and NSS, is
usually made of horizontal pieces of stiffened angle iron spaced at 15-cm (5.75-in.) intervals, with vertical supports no
closer than 1.2 m (4 ft.) apart"
". . . in New Mexico, the Carlsbad Caverns have hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats . . . but only a few miles
away, in the deepest cave in the U.S. (Lechuguilla), there are no living bats . . ."
"Recently, investigators have noticed a relationship between bats and ropens . . . The old Flying-Fox-fruit-bat explanation had
been soundly disproven (no bat), for many eyewitness reports and native accounts reveal a long-tailed fish-eating creature
with a head crest like that of some pterosaurs, and a bioluminescence brighter than any classified bioluminescent organism"
Ropen or Pterosaur Seen in South Carolina: Wooten Sighting (like a "humongous bat")
"BCI relies on environmentally conscientious and informed individuals to conserve and protect bat species and their vital
ecosystems globally."
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