The young free-tailed bats must also eventually leave their nursery.

Home to the Mexican free-tailed bat, access to the area is available only through advanced reservations.

The genus belongs to a group commonly referred to as free-tailed bats.

Bats there are, free-tailed bats, that I have watched for generations.

They started building bat houses five years ago, and now have about 1,700 free-tailed bats visiting their nine houses.

Bacardi is also the only brand to feature the Mexican free-tailed bat as its icon or logo.

Mexican free-tailed bats are nocturnal foragers and begin feeding after dusk.

Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation for navigation and detecting prey.

It uses a similar strategy to grab individual free-tailed bats from flying streams of bats.

Every year, female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States.