Africa-Press – Cape verde. Parts of the United States were hit by a ferocious “once-in-a-century” snowstorm ahead of the Christmas holidays, with some animal species also suffering from the frigid temperatures.
Some 700 wild Mexican free-tailed bats that had a close brush with death in inclement weather were released in Houston, Texas on December 28.The creatures rejoined their colony living under the city’s Waugh Drive bridge after being offered a week of rehabilitation by the Houston Humane Society and Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition. Crowds thronged the bridge to watch the release.
As the recent snowstorm battered parts of the US over the Christmas weekend, bringing plummeting temperatures along with vast amounts of snow, a slew of bats, which have little body fat and cannot survive in freezing conditions, fell to the ground in Texas.
To all appearances, they had frozen to death. However, with help from rescuers, many only needed some heat and hydration “to quick start their systems,” according to the Houston Humane Society. Overall, more than 1,500 frozen bats were retrieved on December 22, with around 115 perishing.
According to Mary Warwick, director at the Houston Humane Society-Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition, about 60 bats were still being kept in an incubator, with the rest placed in dog kennels to keep them cool and, accordingly, less hungry.
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