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Our Trip to Wyandotte
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Cannelton Elementary Club standing at the opening of Big Wyandotte Cave


Dr. McCreedy shows us that this gate keeps people out of the rest of the cave where most of the Indiana bats and other bats hibernate for the winter. It has enough opening to allow the bats to fly easily through. It also allows the cave to breathe.
The ceiling had many areas that were cracked. Dr. McCreedy told us that bats like to hold onto these cracks when they sleep. They like to hang there toward the center of the ceiling rather than the edges so that predators such as raccoons cannot reach them.
Here you can see black spots on the sides and floor of the cave. These are called guano. Guano is bat waste or bat droppings. Guano is important for caves because it gives food for cave plants and insects like crickets.
Here we are leaving Big Wyandotte to go to the Small Wyandotte cave.
This is one of the entrances to the smaller cave. We could not go far in this cave either because there was a spot on the cave floor that was damaged due to the 10 inch rain there in early September. That spot has been repaired now by the Indiana Karst Conservancy.
Cave crickets can be seen on the ceiling!
Soon we saw more than just crickets!


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References/Resources

All other photos on this page:
Cannelton Elementary Media Club

Thanks to:

Dr. Clark McCreedy
Hoosier National Forest

Bob Sawtelle
IDNR - O'Bannon Woods State Par

Carol Groves
of Wyandotte Caves LLC

WEBSITES:

Wyandotte Caves
http://www.wyandottecaves.com
 


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