Maybe, but from a balcony of a condo I used to have in downtown Austin I could look down at the world’s largest urban bat colony sleeping under the Congress St

Maybe, but from a balcony of a condo I used to have in downtown Austin I could look down at the world’s largest urban bat colony sleeping under the Congress St bridge over our downtown lake[1]. The over a million bats would fly out in an amazing cloud each evening and fly down the lake in mass searching for insects to eat. It was an impressive sight, especially when they chose to fly toward my building splitting around it in flight a few floors below my view. I used to use the running trail around our downtown lake frequently and I could hear the bats making sounds above me as I ran under the bridge. Occasionally, I would wonder about those stories of spelunkers getting rabies from just breathing the virus from a large subterranean colony, but thousands of people use Austin’s most popular running trail with apparently no ill effects from the close proximity to so many bats. [1] https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2017/07/28/with-me-as-your-guide-worlds-largest-bat-colony-austin-texas-orig.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2017/07/28/with-me-as-your...