The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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The same corner of Guano Hall photographed in, from left to right: the winter of 2009 (with
hibernating bats), the winter of 2010 (with fewer bats), and the winter of 2011 (with no bats).
“As a brief aside,” he went on, “I read this news story the other day. A
place called the Vermont Center for Ecostudies has set up this Web site.
People can take a photo of any and all organisms in Vermont and get them
registered on this site. If I had read that a few years ago, I would have
laughed. I would have said, ‘You’re going to have people sending in a
picture of a pine tree?’ And now, after what’s happened with the little
browns, I just wish they had done it earlier.”

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