Based on site-visits over the past several years to Conner Cave in Major County, Oklahoma, it appears that the large population of Brazilian free-tailed bats that historically used the cave as a maternity site has abandoned the cave. This was one of the northernmost maternity caves in the Great Plains. Previous estimates of the size of the population were several hundred thousand.
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1 June 2014
Loss of a significant maternity population of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Oklahoma
William Caire,
Kyle B. Ganow,
Raymond S. Matlack,
Gloria M. Caddell,
Priscilla H. C. Crawford
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The Southwestern Naturalist
Vol. 59 • No. 2
June 2014
Vol. 59 • No. 2
June 2014