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Most of which are small insect-eating varieties like the big brown bat and the little brown bat. but in the southeastern parts of the united states, in particular in texas, there's an abundance of one species. the mexican free-tailed bat. the bracken cave outside san antonio is believed to be home to the single largest colony of bats in the world. >> every year during the spring and summer, i think there are something like 30 million bats in this cave in the summer. >> in the cave? >> in the cave in the summer. there are so many bats that the local weather stations use their doppler radar. the...

America, over the last decade and a half, bat populations have been plummeting all because of an outbreak they've been fighting of a disease called white nose syndrome. >> it's a cold-loving fungus that grows on the bat when the bats are hibernating in the wintertime. and unfortunately, this has affected something on the order of a dozen different species of north american bats. in some cases, populations have declined over 90%. >> really? that's huge. >> it's huge, yes. it's a terrible threat to bats. and ironically, it's a disease that we brought to bats. the fungus that causes this disease ...

And another, the tube-nosed bat, discovered in 2017 which made news for its resemblance to the former hairstyle of nsync's lance bass. >> there's the honduran white bat which looks like a cotton ball. you have your flying foxes that look like puppies but then you have some really ugly bats like wrinkle face bats. i like the ugly bats more than the cute bats. >> a bat that only a mother and dan riskin can love. >> blood-feeding bats, or vampire bats, do exist. but they're only about .2% of all bat species. they live in central and south america and prey on the blood of birds, pigs and cattle. >...

In north america alone there are 46 different species of bats.

World to pursue and achieve your own dreams. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. bats throughout human history seem to have this image as evil, dark and dangerous. they seem to have got this bad impression in our cultures. there's definitely something odd about them. but just because they're odd doesn't mean they're bad. bats are actually quite fascinating animals. the more you get to know them, the more fascinating they are. the more social creatures you see them become. and some of them are really beautiful. but bats do carry the viruses