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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Shadowing Vida Lahey : Bats, Books and Biographical Method
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'In bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Pacific Motorway at dusk, I edge south past the Logan Road exit towards the Gold Coast. Vehicles moving easily north have already put their headlights on. Flying foxes are massing against the darkening sky. These native megabats will find their way to food using their sharp eyes and sense of smell. As I watch, I am reminded of the microbats of another hemisphere. Those blind bats had prompted Thomas Nagel's famous paper, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review Special Issue : A Tribute to Professor Patrick Buckridge vol. 21 no. 1 June 2014 8579666 2014 periodical issue 2014 pg. 72-83
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