Post by L Roebuck on Aug 31, 2008 7:59:37 GMT -5
Equipment will help officials decide if bats can be removed from endangered species list
A short distance from the creek was a limestone outcropping marking the entrance to the cave.
It was 7:30 p.m., and Corey Holliday was in Jackson County, just a few miles from the Cumberland River, to count gray bats.
A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday had with him an infrared video camera and a laptop computer - the latest tools for counting bats as they leave the cave at night to feed on insects.
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A short distance from the creek was a limestone outcropping marking the entrance to the cave.
It was 7:30 p.m., and Corey Holliday was in Jackson County, just a few miles from the Cumberland River, to count gray bats.
A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday had with him an infrared video camera and a laptop computer - the latest tools for counting bats as they leave the cave at night to feed on insects.
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