<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">from the NYT -   bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px auto;max-width:600px;width:600px"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:inherit">10. And finally, when you go to the loo, a bat might go boo.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px auto;max-width:600px;width:600px"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif">In Tanzania, the spaces under certain pit latrines have become cozy havens for roosting bats. A new study found that <a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/zatjs-JZMg0Veu4iErHKSQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjQ0SvP0TfaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8xMC8wOC9zY2llbmNlL2JhdHMtb3V0aG91c2VzLWFmcmljYS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU3JmVtYz1lZGl0X25lXzIwMjExMDA4Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTQyNDM5Jm5sPWV2ZW5pbmctYnJpZWZpbmcmcmVnaV9pZD02NDE1OTc3NiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTcxMTk2JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD01ZTcxMTM5Yjc5YWIxNDMzZDA3NzEwZDhmODgzNTZjOFcDbnl0QgphX6-_YGEE8AFEUhNmb296bGVyODNAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA" class="gmail-m_-305138972814891699css-5nb5nb" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(40,110,208);font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit">pit toilets have everything a bat could want</a>: moist air, warm and temperature-controlled conditions, and protection from predators that cannot crawl through the drop hole.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px auto;max-width:600px;width:600px"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif">Leejiah Dorward, a postdoctoral researcher at Bangor University in Wales, began to survey the pit toilets in 2017, using a precarious photography method. He later taped a small mirror and flashlight to angled aluminum rods, allowing him to count all the bats, which clung to the wooden bars that held up the concrete slab covering the hole. His suspicions were confirmed — the older the latrine, the more bats to be found.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>