Bats In Austin
Personal memory by Peter Villhard
2020 • Austin, TX, USA
In Austin, Texas, under the Congress Avenue bridge, lives a colony of bats. These bats are famous, and people come from all over to see them take to the sky in the early dawn or at sunset. But these bats are in danger. Increased light pollution threatens their ability to hunt, spurred on by the increasing industrialization of Austin, and if precautions are not taken they could disappear altogether.
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