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Twilight zone: follow a scientist as she searches the skies to investigate one of nighttime's fliers--bats.(Nancy Simmons)
The sun is setting in the rain forest of French Guiana (gee-AH-nah), a country in northern South America. Nancy Simmons, a zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, hikes along a trail through the trees. She spreads out a large net and strings it between two poles like a volleyball net. She lodges the poles into the ground. Then, she waits.
As evening falls, some of the forest's night fliers--bats--emerge from their sleeping roosts. As they swoop past Simmons--THWAP!--a few of the bats collide with her net and get snarled in its threads. Simmons works through the night, carefully untangling the bats. She examines each one before ...
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