A summer spectacle: Visiting Oklahoma's Selman Bat Cave is a bucket list item
A summer spectacle: Visiting Oklahoma's Selman Bat Cave is a bucket list item Ed Godfrey, Oklahoman © SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN People watch Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from the Selman bat cave near Freedom in 2018. When Melynda Hickman's cell phone rings, the theme song from the 1960's "Batman" television series can be heard to all within earshot. It certainly is an appropriate ringtone for Oklahoma's Batwoman. Hickman is a wildlife diversity biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. About half of her duties as a biologist involve bats, incl...