Smithsonian Channel Documentaries

Batwomen of Panama (2009x5)

Air date: Mar 03, 2009

A 600-acre patch of forest in Panama where 72 species of bats co-exist - more than in the whole of Europe or the USA. German scientist Elisabeth Kalko spent over 10 years working in the dark on Barro Colorado Island, gathering a group of the world's most adventurous and daring women scientists - the batwomen of Panama.