In IISc, roaming is a favourite pastime for mainly two reasons-the first one is the pleasant atmosphere of the place and the other is that you get to explore new things and learn a lot from the events happening around you.
Well, I also got to learn something yesterday as I wandered past the JRD Tata Memorial Library and saw a team of biologists from the NCBS(National Center for Biological Sciences), a premier institute in biological sciences which was based in IISc a few years ago, working on bats-a rather unusual thing for a novice like me. I was amazed by their coordination in recording the data about the bats' physiological characters and the novel character of their work, as one of them was measuring the various characters of the bat, a lesser seen animal while the other one was recording the observations. One of them was taking samples of the skin of each bat while the penultimate person was tying a beaded string around the bat's neck and releasing it into the lap of Mother Nature.
For the first time I got to see the real structure of a bat, thanks to these people who conducted the job with passion and keenness, unperturbed by the bats' adamant nature as they were being studied, which is a clear witness to the greatness of their body of work and the excitements of the world of biology.
Well, I also got to learn something yesterday as I wandered past the JRD Tata Memorial Library and saw a team of biologists from the NCBS(National Center for Biological Sciences), a premier institute in biological sciences which was based in IISc a few years ago, working on bats-a rather unusual thing for a novice like me. I was amazed by their coordination in recording the data about the bats' physiological characters and the novel character of their work, as one of them was measuring the various characters of the bat, a lesser seen animal while the other one was recording the observations. One of them was taking samples of the skin of each bat while the penultimate person was tying a beaded string around the bat's neck and releasing it into the lap of Mother Nature.
For the first time I got to see the real structure of a bat, thanks to these people who conducted the job with passion and keenness, unperturbed by the bats' adamant nature as they were being studied, which is a clear witness to the greatness of their body of work and the excitements of the world of biology.
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