Today I'm helping lead one of the walks on bats. I'm very excited to see any bats: big browns, little browns, there may be horny bats, red bats- I just don't know, but I'm jazzed! Any bat is a good bat. One of the most profound experiences I've ever had was catching my first short tailed fruit bat in Costa Rica and it was just like this magical thing to meet this charismatic little cutie that you'd never see if you didn't have a net. It made me love Costa Rica for the rest of my life. So, tonight I'm going to take 85 people out and catch a bat. People who haven't met a bat before are going to fall in love with them. You can't not- they're so cute! They're gonna love bats forever. I work as a science educator. It's not so much about the animals, it's about the experience people have. I think it's important that people have a valuable experience here today. For example, recycling is a pain, but if you see how it's important to the environment, then it really touches you. If you're invested on a visceral level because of an experience you had as a kid, that's when the conversation happens. It's neat to catch animals- but to me, the real importance is hundreds of people having an experience like the one they will have today at Ontario Bio Blitz.