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An in-depth podcast probing the mysteries of the animal world with two award-winning National Geographic investigative journalists.
Join Jeffrey Barbee and Laurel Neme as we journey around the world and discover who is fighting to protect it. Get ready for some frontline encounters with the wild as we talk with some of the planet's most fierce, funny and courageous scientists and other wildlife champions.
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Saturday Jan 31, 2015
Saturday Jan 31, 2015
While researching bats for one of her films, documentary filmmaker Carol Foster learned that humans were also doing what bats could do, namely using echolocation to see.That set her off on a project to help the blind in Belize learn this amazing skill. She’s even launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to fund the effort. In this interview, we talk about what we can learn from bats and how the blind uses flash sonar to see the world.