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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Grace Nichols — recording bats in the pine bush
Description: Grace Nichols is a citizen scientist and also an activist. In this week’s podcast, the former biology teacher talks about a group she has formed to document the many species of bats that live in portions of the pine bush slated for development. “Clunk, clunk — click, click,” she describes the sounds heard on their bat detectors, the pitch too high for human ears to hear. Recorders from a local bat expert have produced sonograms of various species — each as individual as a fingerprint. Standing near the fringes of green in the midst of suburbia, said Nichols. “You become more aware of how...