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\f0\b\fs24 \cf0 Ken Glover: \b0 What we are looking at here it is of the
world's largest colony of uh... of bats in a building, built especially for them this
uh... this University of Florida bat house and bat barn represents a huge conservation
effort \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\b\fs24 Martin Glover: \b0 Before the bat houses were here, there
was a really big issue with housing, like they would get in people\'92s houses or they
would house in the stadium or different buildings. So one of the proposed solutions was actually
to build a bat house. \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\b\fs24 Ken Glover: \b0 So we want to make sure that the bats
have their own building to live in, and they are allowed to live undisturbed away from
human occupied structures. \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\b\fs24 Dawn Ward: \b0 I think it\'92s something special, I think
it\'92s something unique. And I was just here taking pictures of it to send to family and
friends just to show them what\'92s on campus. \f1\fs32 \
\f0\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \b Ken Glover:
\b0 These bats are very much valuable to our ecosystem here in Gainesville area and are
not a pest of humans. \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\b\fs24 Martin Glover: \b0 It\'92s definitely an experience that
you can say, \'93Hey I went to a bat house\'94. People are like, \'93There are bat houses?
What?\'94 \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\b\fs24 Dawn Ward: \b0 I would say you can see hundreds of bats
come out, sometimes it feels like there\'92s just clouds of them, they fill the sky.
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\f0\b\fs24 Martin Glover: \b0 It\'92s definitely something you should
come out and see once or twice.}