The bats must think so, because we sure see a lot of Mexican free-tailed bats in Texas. Or are those Brazilian free-tailed bats, who think that Texas is part of Brazil?
-----Original Message----- >From: Nico Escamilla <[email protected]> >Sent: Jul 26, 2010 8:48 PM >To: Rod Goke <[email protected]> >Cc: TexasCavers <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: free-tailed bats > >Yeah, just like Texas is part of Mexico > >On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Rod Goke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Let's see, subspecies mexicana is part of the species brasiliensis... >> Sure, that makes perfect sense, ... as long as Mexico is part of Brazil. >> Right? >> >> ;-) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >From: Jim Kennedy <[email protected]> >> >Sent: Jul 26, 2010 4:03 PM >> >To: Fritz Holt <[email protected]> >> >Cc: Nico Escamilla <[email protected]>, [email protected], >> [email protected] >> >Subject: [Texascavers] Re: free-tailed bats >> > >> > >> >Our common free-tailed bat is _Tadarida brasiliensis_, subspecies >> >_mexicana_. So it is perfectly acceptable to use either the species >> >or subspecies epithet as a common name. >> > >> >Jim (currently in Elizabethtown, KY) >> > >> > >> >On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:40 PM, "Fritz Holt" >> ><[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> I have seen them referred to as Brazilian free-tailed bats in other >> >> written material and wondered if they were mistaken and should have >> >> said Mexican or are there two distinct varieties of free-tailed >> >> bats? What’s the answer, Jim? >> >> >> >> Fritz >> >> >> >> From: Nico Escamilla [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:26 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Another LeBlanc article on caving : >> >> Kickapoo Cavern SP : >> >> >> >> Seems like bats no longer want to be Mexican and they turned >> >> Brasilian, LOL >> >> must be all the violence going on :-P >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Into the dark: Spelunk in the raw abyss of Kickapoo Cavern >> >> >> >> By Pamela LeBlanc >> >> AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF >> >> >> >> Updated: 7:24 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010 >> >> >> >> Published: 5:07 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010 >> >> >> >> >> >> Besides the wild cave tours, which are offered by reservation only >> >> on Saturdays, the park is known for its bat population. From April >> >> through September, a colony of more than half a million Brazilian >> >> free-tailed bats swoops out of Stuart Bat Cave, which is slightly >> >> smaller than Kickapoo Cavern, on a nightly mission to feast on >> >> insects. >> >> >> >> http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
