Learn more about these amazing mammals for Bat Appreciation Day!
Today is International Bat Appreciation Day AND National Haiku Poetry Day – how to celebrate? By writing a haiku about bats of course!! Here’s the first ever haiku attempt by our photographer Hannah to go along with some of her photos of the largest bat colony in North America:
Consumer of mosquitos
How important you are
Loved, feared, misjudged and revered
As the haiku states, bats are incredibly important mammals! Not only do they rid us of a vast quantity of disease-carrying mosquitoes, but they’re also vital pollinators!
You can find North America’s largest bat colony on the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas. Approximately 1,500,000 Mexican Free-Tailed bats live there and they eat around 10,000 to 30,000 lbs of insects each night!!
Bats are unique in their ability to fly. Bats are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight!
Help us celebrate the day by writing your own bat haiku and sharing it with us via our contact page for a chance to be highlighted on our socials!!
Or simply learn more about these amazing creatures and watch the bats emerge from under the bridge by checking out one of our earliest videos on our YouTube channel here:
