Upon entering the premises, laborers found that a colony of over one hundred bats was living in one of the rooms.Upon making the discovery, the Nature and Parks Authority was immediately called and the winged night creatures were taken to the WPA's Safari animal hospital. From there, the bats were successfully released back into the wild in the Beit Guvrin National Park's caves.The bats belong to the European free-tailed species. The bats live on a diet of insects and are common in Israeli cities and in abandoned buildings throughout the country.