a park guide and acting supervisory park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns. “The bats being like a link between the cave and the desert kind of brings it all full circle. It's a really powerful lesson ...

The park offers bat flight viewing of Mexican free-tailed ... (Odessa American|Jacob Ford) Prior to exploring the Carlsbad Caverns, cave goers will need to make a reservation whether it’s ...

The boxes were believed to once hold explosives used to carve passageways in the cave to allow bat dung known as guano to be lifted to the surface. Guano was mined from Carlsbad Caverns in the ...

Additional trails are available. For those who visit Carlsbad Caverns from late May through October, the Cave features a Bat ...

They actually live here only during the Summer months, and they come here to give birth and raise their young in the caverns ... wing span. Bats reside about 1/2 mile inside the cave hanging ...

CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK ... In one of the park's main draws, an enormous cloud of bats emerges from a cave in a breathtaking stream each night at dusk to go hunting for insects.

“At the scale of human perspective, a spilled snack bag may seem trivial, but to the life of the cave it can be world-changing,” rangers warned. Carlsbad Caverns is home to 17 species of ...