http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/2010/02/bats-of-texas/ Learning to conserve at the Houston Zoo Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/2010/02/bats-of-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-10287 John Nance Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:43:44 +0000 http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/?p=866#comment-10287 Our town, Jefferson ,Texas, is attaching a large number of bat habitats on an abandoned r.r. tressle over a shallow bayou that in low water periods is stressed by nitrates. Wouldn't it be better to place the habitat away from the water since bat guano is so high in nitrates and phospates? There seemes to be nothing in the design to catch or recover the guano. Our town, Jefferson ,Texas, is attaching a large number of bat habitats on an abandoned r.r. tressle over a shallow bayou that in low water periods is stressed by nitrates. Wouldn’t it be better to place the habitat away from the water since bat guano is so high in nitrates and phospates? There seemes to be nothing in the design to catch or recover the guano.

]]> http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/2010/02/bats-of-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Na-Na-Natalie Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:06:45 +0000 http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/?p=866#comment-426 Whoa! That's a lot of bats. Whoa! That’s a lot of bats.

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