Summer Saturday Nights: The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (It's a Zoo!)

What you're looking at is part of the Riparian Corridor at Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. I was here to learn about bats~the world's only flying mammals. (Flying squirrels can't really fly; they're just real good at gliding.)

Think of it [the water] as a runway for for airplanes to do "touch-and-go" landings, only in this case, the airplanes are bats skimming the surface of the water to take a drink.

I didn't photograph a bat tonight, but that turtle was very obliging as he made his way across the pond.

A scientist was capturing the echo-location calls of bats as they flew by, downloading them to her computer, and playing them for us at a frequency humans can hear.

She fascinated us with her explanation of the nature and sophistication of the "radar" that bats use to "see" the world around them.

Come visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

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