No you’re not! I just watched the bat flight out of Carlsbad Caverns, and am going inside the Caverns tomorrow. It’s infuriating that people don’t understand how their actions impact ecosystems like that.
Bats are incredibly important for pollination and pest control, and they are being wiped out with White Nose Syndrome, which is a moldy fungus that grows over the bats’ faces and disturbs their hibernation cycle, killing them in the process. I am sure this bag of Cheetos didn’t help.
People are stupid and careless and only think about themselves, for the most part.
My husband and I spent the evening washing and disinfecting our clothes and shoes because we were inside a different cave recently and don’t want to potentially spread WNS. So some people care.
Best I can do is bat dance-off https://youtu.be/wNeD0EWyamc?si=ELfbwW2Rb7wSu_Ki