The bats of Austin, Texas

Bats in Austin

The capital of the state of Texas is Austin. It is by no means the most populated city, as Houston beats it by far, nor is it the most visited by tourists. Even so, it is a quite beautiful city with many places of interest, such as parks and large buildings such as the City Hall, the seat of the state government or the Condominium Tower, a residential building that reaches 172 meters in height, although there is still a taller building in the city, The austonian.

And yet what makes Austin famous, even more so than the new Speed ​​circuit in which a Formula 1 Grand Prix will be held soon, they are their bats.

If Batman really existed, Austin would probably be his home, and the fact is that a huge community of these animals lives in the Texas city, so many that they are not even encrypted in the thousands, but even over a million. We therefore speak of the largest urban community in the world of these mammals.

This community congregates mainly in the basement of one of the bridges of the city, the Congress Bridge, during the warmer months, between March and November. During that time, every evening, the bats go out daily in search of dinner. It is also said that they eat more than a ton of insects every night.

Well, those bat exits from the Congress Bridge have become the biggest show and in the biggest tourist event in the city of Austin. Thus, every afternoon, many tourists and curious people approach the bridge and its surroundings, well equipped with video and photo cameras, to contemplate the spectacular image of thousands of bats flying and the sound and hum of thousands and thousands of flapping wings. Quite a natural spectacle.


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