Lost River Cave and Valley

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The Lost River Cave and Valley is an urban nature reserve. Sixty-eight acres of green space include a diversity of wildlife habitat including river, wetlands, blue holes, limestone bluffs, grassland prairie, cedar glade, springs, and hardwood forest.

The valley boasts over 130 species of birds during spring migration and an abundance of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. This web of life extends into the cave, where countless critters live quietly in the darkness. Life in a cave is not easy but the unique animals that live underground have found some interesting ways of adapting to their special environment.

The complete darkness that paralyzes human beings doesn't slow down the critters that call caves their homes. Bats use their echolocation system to "see" in the dark. They are so good at it that they can detect an obstacle the width of a human hair while flying through the darkness. The bats most commonly found in the Lost River Cave are Eastern Pipistrelles, a tiny brown bat that lives a mostly solitary life.

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