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Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges

  • Written by Tianshu Li, Research Assistant in Systems Engineering, University of Virginia
imageCrowds gather at dusk in Austin, Texas, to watch some 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge to feed from their roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge.Jeff Haynes/AFP via Getty Images

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