The Bat, the Blossom and the Biologist with Donna Howell
There is in Arizona a bat that flies thousands of miles each spring to feed on the flowers of a plant that blooms only once in 25 years-and then dies. Last summer Q.E.D. went to the Sonoran Desert in pursuit of this curious but intimate relationship-for it is a trading of food for sex: the bat gets the food and the flower gets pollinated in exchange.
How did such a partnership ever come about? For more than a decade biologist DONNA HOWELL has been unravelling just why two such unlikely partners got together and how they make the most of each other.
Film cameramen MIKE spooner. SCOTT ATTENBACH Film editor ROLAND TONGUE Series editor MICK RHODES Producer DANA PURVIS