Going to bat for bats
A millionaire enamored with bats, and concerned about threats to their natural habitat, built the world's largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling Texas ranch. After years of waiting, the bats showed up.
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For the love of bats
Texas millionaire David Bamberger was so enamored with the bats he saw at the renowned Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio, and was so concerned about threats to the flying mammals' natural habitat, that in the late 1990s he built the world's largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling ranch near Johnson City. For a long time, no bats showed up. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on what happened once they did.
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