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A special thanks to those kind enough to let me use their photos:

 

Viven Jones

  Justin Welbergen
 

Bruce G. Marcot

  The Lubee Bat Conservatory
  Scienctific Frontline

 

This website was completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Biology 323, Animal Behavior, at Davidson College in the Spring Semester 2008.

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