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The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest (Spanish)

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The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land to become healthy ecosystems again. A mining company in Brazil asked the scientists to restore a tropical forest on their old mining site. The original tropical forest had been cut down to mine the area for bauxite or aluminum ore. The scientists wanted to know whether they could set up the conditions so that plants and animals could come in from outside the mined area without further human help. Then, the new plants and animals might help the land to become healthy again.

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  • For this FACTivity, you will be growing bean seeds and answering the question: What other benefits does animal scat offer to trees and plants? Four 4-inch plant pots with saucers...

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  • complex

    (käm pleks): Having many parts, details, ideas, or functions often related in a complicated way.

  • defecate

    (de fi cāt): To expel feces from the bowels.

  • disperse

    (di spǝrs): To cause to become spread widely; scatter.

  • diversity

    (dǝ vǝr si tē): The condition of having or being composed of differing elements; variety.

  • infertile

    (in fǝr tǝl): Not fertile or productive.

  • mammal

    (ma mǝl): Any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates that include human beings and all other animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands and have the skin usually more or less covered with hair.

  • mine

    (mīn): To dig into for ore or metal.

  • native

    (nā tiv): Living or growing naturally in a particular region.

  • natural resource

    (na ch(ǝ) rǝl rē sȯrs): A feature or phenomenon in nature that enhances the quality of human life.

  • represent

    (re pri zent): To serve as a specimen, example, or instance of.

  • sample

    (sam pəl): A small subset group, representative of the entire group.

  • scat

    (skat): Animal fecal droppings.

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  • The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land to become healthy ecosystems again. A mining company in Brazil...

    The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest

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