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Bat Sanctuary

Part two of the two-part Radio Expedition Series, NPR's Chris Joyce visits an abandoned mine in Michigan's upper peninsula where thousands of bats live. Biologists and mine historians have united to protect the mines, which provide the bats a safe habitat in which to hibernate.

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