Wild Sounds Of The West: ‘Bats Are The Denizens Of The Dark’

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<p>Cluster of hibernating healthy Virginia big-eared bats in Pendleton County, WV</p>
Photo: Wildsounds | Healthy Virginia big-eared bats - USFWS
Cluster of hibernating healthy Virginia big-eared bats in Pendleton County, WV

Bats are an animal that's really hard to get to know. It doesn't help that they only come out at night. Listen above to the sounds of the Mountain West, the animals that make them and the people who care about them. In this episode you meet Brian Reichert, an ecologist with the North American Bat Monitoring Program.