Research and Impact
Bat World Sanctuary has been described as "the largest bat rescue center on the planet," with an estimated 20,000 Mexican free-tails inhabiting the sanctuary, plus a seasonal maternity colony of about 500 females who move in each spring. It holds about 150 non-releasable bats who live there permanently.
There is a special area inside Bat World Sanctuary that serves as a rehabilitation center for sick or injured bats. It is a simulated natural habitat with different features that cater to specific types of bat in order to lower the stresses that bats experience from being captive. Annually, as many as 200 rehabilitated bats are released back to the wild.
Lollar and the staff at the sanctuary have also launched a bat house project, where they would remove unwanted bats from local buildings free of charge as long as the building owners agreed to hang bat houses close to where the bats formerly entered the buildings. The bat houses were also provided for free through the program.
Observations by volunteers for Bat World Sanctuary and Bat Conservation International led researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M to conclude that male bats create songs to attract females and warn other males to stay away. The sanctuary has also hosted a colony of bats to assist with research conducted at the University of Colorado at Denver, and has assisted scientists at Cornell University in the study of acoustic mimicry of visual warning signals by echolocating bats.
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