Maternity colony (bats) Maternity colony (bats) A maternity colony refers to a temporary association of reproductive female bats for giving birth to, nursing, and weaning their pups. The colonies are initiated by pregnant bats. After giving birth, the colony consists of the lactating females and their offspring. After weaning, juveniles will leave the maternity colony, and the colony itself will break apart. The size of a maternity colony is highly variable by species, with some species forming colonies consisting of ten or fewer individuals, while the largest maternity colony in the world in Bracken Cave is estimated to have over 15 million bats.
We Are What We Are (2010 film) Film4 FrightFest 2010. IFC Film will release the film in the United States as Video-on-demand. Artificial Eye released "We Are What We Are" in the UK on 12 November 2010. The score was composed by Odd Crew. Deborah Young of "Reuters" said, that "We Are What We Are" "is perhaps too dark and relentlessly humorless to find wide international audiences." Young stated that "another limiting factor is the difficulty of identifying with any of the characters, who are played expressively but still remain abstract and alien, distant from the viewer." Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of