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...climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could not move. Then a number of bodyguards helped him up the mountain. The Generalissimo fell into a cave that was hidden by thorny shrubs, and lay there, exhausted. Later soldiers found him. "Let us fire a shot," said one. "Don't do that," said another...
...Last Man. Last week, in a cave in the Bosnian hills, Anna Furlan, a black-haired girl, tended a score of wounded Partisans. Axis troops were advancing under the cover of Stukas. The Partisans fell back doggedly, drawing the fascist forces between two mountains where they might be cut off and annihilated. The tactic was simple, but the cave, the wounded Partisans and Anna would fall into fascist hands. When the Germans came close to the mouth of the cave, Anna got a tommy gun, killed all the wounded men, then herself...
Bats need no home during the lush summer nights when the air is full of edible insects. By day they hang in convenient roosts-trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 miles to find their old cave and sleep in it until spring...
Last winter a group of Cornell students joined Mohr in a thorough exploration of the bat caves in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania. The limestone ridges there are honeycombed with small caves, but Aitken's Cave, near Milroy, is the most accessible. All banded bats were found in the same cave as in previous years. Even bats that had been carried off and released far away were back again. Only once did Mohr find an intruder: this stray bat's own cave had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer...
Charles Mohr is not the only bat-bander. Don Griffin of Harvard has banded thousands of bats in New England, had also noted the homing urge. Bats from a cave near the coast were released 15 miles at sea. Two days later they were back in their own cave...