Over 1500 bats were rescued from the Waugh Street Bridge and in Pearland since Friday. The public is welcome to watch them release almost 700 of bats on Wednesday at 5:30 at Waugh Street Bridge in ...

Mary Warwick didn’t plan to spend the last week of December with more than 1,500 convalescing bats in her home. But scores of the creatures needed help after a cold snap hit the Houston area on ...

She put the bats in incubators and returned to the bridge twice a day to collect more. Two days later, she got a call about more than 900 bats rescued from a bridge in nearby Pearland, Texas.

One popular misconception about bats, says Thomson, is that they’re disease-ridden. In fact, she says, only 0.5 per cent of bats have rabies.