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| Friday Evening - Families gather for our evening part of Wing Ding. | We tell them about what we will see when the bats exit the cave at the entrance below. | Not all of the participants could keep their eyes open no matter how interesting the presentation! |
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| Mike then took a live myotis bat around for people to look at. | We then went down to the entrance and waited for over 40 minutes for the bats to come out. | Everyone was pretty patient though. |
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| At the start of the flight when the bats were few in number, Mel shows their echolocation calls on her detection device. | Next Day - Saturday - we have two Big Brown Bats under the picnic pavillion where we are holding the bat detective game. | With all of the commotion they actually stayed all day and allowed everyone participating to see them up close |
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| Even Luna, Alabaster Caverns Mascot, came by and said howdy to everyone! | One of the activities was the Missing Bat - Could you find 11 bats hiding in natural roosts in the area? | Two graduates of the bat detective agency with Luna |
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| When a detective finds all of the missing bats, they are awarded a bat dectective badge in a ceremony. | Professor D giving the badge of honor to a lucky participant | One looks a the badge while sister gets hers |
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| Mom also got one (as she participated) and also got a Bats of Oklahoma book. | Saturday Night: Two kids looking at our captured bat that will be released tonight. | We had three of them caught this morning. |
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| Again the presentation like last night except we added some to take a bit longer as not to be at the cave entrance waiting. | Everyone had a part in this show | Duane brought his museum stuffed bats (real dead stuffed bats) and we divided into small teaching groups |
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| We showed only bats that are native to the area | People were enthralled with seeing (and touching) a bat up close. | And then it was time to go see the bats come out! (and within 5 minutes they were! Good timing!) |
