Whip Spiders Only Look Terrifying, UCLA Biologist Reports
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Would you be willing to spend each night in the company of 300,000 bats -- all in the service of science? UCLA biologist Kenneth Chapin did just that, for several weeks in 2012 and 2014, while conducting research in darkened caves in Puerto Rico. In addition to bats, the habitats were home to snakes, cockroaches and spiders.