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Bats are like riddles. The Bat-a-thon aims to solve them
It’s late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch as many different kinds of neotropical bats as they can. With at least 75 species, …