Chapter 10 (Jalen Jones)

Chapter 10 begins in Albany with a team of biologists who decided to climb into caves and count bat population. When they arrived to the caves, they were met with dead bats lying on the floor with a white substance on their body. Nobody understood why this happened. Eventually, Kolbert discovered that the white substance was a fungus that had traveled from West Virginia. This was extremely confusing due to the fact that Darwin had a theory that stated that organisms couldn't  travel long distances without dying out. This species of bats ended up dying because of the new environment that it was living in although, it should be the opposite. This relates to the first APES theme because it shows how we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to discovering why certain species can't live in certain places. Also we have to try to discover the reason for the widespread of this fungi. How was it able to travel so far and adapt to every environment that it was in?