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Could bats guide humans to clean drinking water in places where it's scarce?

  • Written by Theresa Laverty, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
Long-eared Myotis bat (_Myotis septentrionalis_), photographed in Arizona.Srikanth Vk, CC BY

Desert life depends on reliable access to water. In Namibia’s stark Namib Desert, where I spent 18 months doing research for my Ph.D., wildlife concentrates around natural springs. Increasingly, animals there also rely on man-made ponds intended for...

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