Rodrigo and his students discover the bats' dark temple as their natural home and consider experiencing the darkness from the bats' perspective. The chapter also touches on AI technology being used to detect humpback whale songs for conservation purposes amidst discussion of a controversial project called Train Maya affecting the Yucatan landscape.
On the final episode of “Animal,” Sam Anderson travels to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula to meet with a creature he's long been afraid of: bats.
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