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Rain Forests and Night Shifts
Media Release
Jul. 5, 2006
As the day’s last light paints the tropical sky, I perch on the side of a cliff on Khao Luk Chang (Baby Elephant Mountain) in Thailand. A few feet (one meter) in front of me thousands of wrinkled-lipped bats stream out of their cave. Soon they will fan out and gorge on insects in the forest below. Human eyes that work so well during the day are of little use in this world. Out here, hosts of species are supremely adapted for making a living in the dark. Bats with their sonar, tarsiers with their acute hearing and night vision, and civets with their exquisite sense of smell are just a few examples. The Rain Forests are amazing places and now are having to live with people cutting them down to either expand their businesses or what not.
Website: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.2.html
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