MR: The bat biologist, going into a bracken cave with a guy named Jim Kennedy, standing in three feet of guano that had billions of dermestid beetles in it–it’s a flesh-eating beetle. You’re being bitten by beetles. It’s pitch dark. Forty million bats are swirling around you. They’re pissing on you. They’re crapping on you and they’re giving birth on you. The placentas are hitting you like little exploding grenades. It’s dark and you have a laser to take the temperature of the colony, which is about 110º F, and you’re inspecting random bats for mites while you’re sinking in their shit. You just can’t believe how bad it is, and you’re standing there with a scientist who loves bats and is telling you isn’t this great, and you’re just slowly sinking in their pooh going, Man, I miss Malou.
