A Bold Experiment (2020)

In 1997 J David Bamberger broke ground on the first ever manmade bat cave Bamberger the esteemed conservationist and erstwhile cofounder of Churchs Chicken knew he was creating a spectacle and the press ate it up Journalists from New York to Berlin covered the story Hes going batty one headline read 4 years after the cave was built it stood empty Then on a hot summer day in August a journalist from San Antonio followed up and scooped the story There were no bats As he prepared a story on Bambergers Folly Bamberger took one last walk up to the bat cave and witnessed ten thousand bats began streaming out It is the only successful manmade bat cave in the world