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Do you want name a bat on your name?
 December 8, 2008, 8:49 am (3 years ago)According to the Chicago Tribune, researchers at Purdue University are aiming for more financial support this week by auctioning off the name rights to 7 latest discovered kinds of bats originally from Mexico, South America, Central America and Africa, together with 2 Amazonian turtles. Universities and environmental organizations throughout the United States have started to try to generate the fund for their research from the naming rights to new species.
"There is not very much fund to back up this sort of work that is go to discover these new species," explained John Bickham, a Purdue University professor of forestry and natural resources and discoverer of several of the new bats. He explained that money produced by someone who is enthusiastic about the environment, and loves to deal with the history by having a species of creature named after him/her. That's very important to his continued work.
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