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Des Moines Register
As dusk descended on Gray’s Lake park in Des Moines, Kavya Parsa pulled a pair of fuzzy brown bats out of a plastic ice cream bucket and placed them onto the bark of a hearty cottonwood tree near the edge of the lake.
The bats, two of the 18 released back into the wild on Wednesday, sprang from the tree and took flight.
After a long year of helping care for the tiny mammals, Parsa, a lawyer and volunteer at the Iowa Wildlife Center in Ames, beamed with joy as the bats navigated their way into the darkening sky.
As dusk descended on Gray’s Lake park in Des Moines, Kavya Parsa pulled a pair of fuzzy brown bats out of a plastic ice cream bucket and placed them onto the bark of a hearty cottonwood tree near the edge of the lake.
The bats, two of the 18 released back into the wild on Wednesday, sprang from the tree and took flight.
After a long year of helping care for the tiny mammals, Parsa, a lawyer and volunteer at the Iowa Wildlife Center in Ames, beamed with joy as the bats navigated their way into the darkening sky.
“Is your life fulfilled now?” asked Marlene Ehresman, co-founder and executive director of the Iowa Wildlife Center.