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 Kevin Olival was born and raised in Kailua, Hawaii. He has worked with endangered Hawaiian tree snails, and is currently residing in New York City and researching fruit bats from Southeast Asia. He is interested in integrating rigorous science with conservation policy and environmental public awareness.
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 Embodied Earth Series 2: Taking Flight
Poem, Kevin Olival, Aug 01, 2006
Insect-eating bats rely on hearing sonar echoes for navigation. This might make them easy prey for predators with better sight, but they get around this problem by being nocturnal and often living in the dim light and tree-tangled air of tropical forests. Fruit bats, also nocturnal, do not echolocate but rather rely on an acute sense of vision and smell to find their food – succulent mangoes, lychee, figs, and other tropical fruit. What we know as twilight is equivalent to the day's beginning for families of Chiroptera who wake to stretch their wings and take flight in search for the first day’s meal.
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