More than 1,000 frozen bats were rescued by the Houston Humane Society Wildlife Center after they became trapped during the winter storm that swept across the state.
Wildlife rescue teams set out around 5 a.m. Tuesday to visit four bridges in the Houston area and rescued more than 900 bats, with 300 more expected to be rescued by evening.
A spokesperson for the organization posted on social media that the bat was making a rapid recovery.
“We have an incubator, and we set it to a very high temperature, about 95 degrees. We keep the humidity at about 86 percent, because that's the environment that bats breed in,” said Houston Humane Society Wildlife. Tiffany Gallardo says.The center reported Fox 26 Houston. “When we push them in there, their bodies slowly warm up, start moving again, get their bearings again, and kind of come out of that frozen state. When they come out of that frozen state… We provide them with liquids.”
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A Houston wildlife team is working to rehabilitate a bat stuck in an arctic blast. (FOX 26 Houston)
Once the bats are fully recovered, the rescue team plans to return them to the colony.
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Workers at the Houston Humane Society's Wildlife Center were busy checking local bridges for cold-stunned bats, and as of Tuesday evening they had found more than 1,000 bats. (FOX 26 Houston)
The group says, “Bats are highly beneficial creatures that can eat thousands of insects in just one night.'' The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates that the value of bat insect control in Texas is 14 per year We determined that it was worth 100 million dollars.”
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Houston wildlife rescue teams are working to rehabilitate the bat and release it back into the wild by Thursday. (FOX 26 Houston)
The Houston Humane Society said its current goal is to release the bats by Thursday, when temperatures are expected to rise into the 70s.
