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Steve Latour
and his wife were enjoying their usual early morning coffee in the sun outside their lake house in the Kootenay region of British Columbia when they heard noises coming from the bat box attached to the side of the house. Every summer, about 150 Yuma myotis bats return to the box, using it as a maternity colony to give birth to pups and take care of them until they are ready to leave for hibernation in the autumn.
An awning has been installed to protect bats from the heat at Steve Latour’s house in Kootenay, British Columbia. Photograph: Susan Dulc
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