Royal Ontario Museum Bat Cave - Toronto, Ontario
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N 43° 40.070 W 079° 23.641
17T E 629475 N 4836233
In 1988, the Royal Ontario Museum opened this bat cave to give visitors a sense of how bats (of various types) make their homes...and is intended to resemble an actual cave in Jamaica.
Waymark Code: WMEHJC
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/31/2012
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The Museum's website (
visit link) has this to say about the site:
"Brave the Bat Cave! Kids will love discovering the real stories behind these mysterious creatures of the night. Highlights include an audio-visual show that explores cave formation, how bats use echolocation, a spectacular dramatization of bats in flight during a nightly exodus for food and more.
Originally opened in 1988, the ROM’s Bat Cave is a realistic portrayal of the St. Clair Cave in Jamaica, based on ROM fieldwork at the site. The new Bat Cave draws on this original ROM research as well as recent findings from a return trip to Jamaica in February 2010."
The Museum also has posted this video of a 2009 trip to the real cave in Jamaica (
visit link)