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STEVE EMBER: Snottites get their energy from sulfur in the air.  They also produce a poisonous acid. This can make the cave dangerous for people who are not careful.

FRED LUISZER: "You pass out immediately. And if you stayed in that environment for probably, I'm guessing more than an hour or two,  it would kill you."

BARBARA KLEIN: Not all things in caves are small organisms. Scientists in Colorado recently discovered a small, red scorpion-like creature that is blind. Bats also live in caves. Mark Maslyn is a geologist and caving expert. He says cavers must be careful not to harm bat colonies.

MARK MASLYN: "Bats are hibernating creatures.  qweig0914 And if you wake  them up during the wintertime, which is easy to do lights and noise and things like that, then they go outside and their food source, insects, is not available to them, and they die off."

BARBARA KLEIN:  Wearing protective clothing, Mister Maslyn walks past visitors in fmdw110914 addjgvldo the Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs. He enters a hidden cave he helped discover.

MARK MASLYN: "This is not on the normal commercial tour."

STEVE EMBER: Using a headlamp for light, he opens an environmental door that leads to what he calls an "easy" tunnel opening. It measures half a meter in width.        MARK MASLYN: "That's the tightest we're doing today."  
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