Could Bats Guide Humans to Clean Drinking Water in Places Where it’s Scarce?
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Academic
'Part of my research examines relationships between bat species and water quality in an African desert. Based on my observations, I believe that in arid places, people may be able to locate usable water sources and detect changes in the quality of sources they are already using by observing bats', Theresa Laverty writes.
People have used plants and animals as environmental indicators for many years. Most famously, miners carried canaries into coal mines with them to detect toxic gases, including carbon monoxide, before the development of modern safety equipment.
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