What an interesting example of symbiosis! I wish there were more ways that humans could work together with the animals in our environment in ways like these -- it's a win win for both species! Now if only they could be trained to go the washroom...
Yeah I wish they'd included it when they named that library! But they do mention it at the very end: "Joanine Library at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal"
Perhaps the Russian supplier was more competitive or the product of better quality or just more precisely what was needed. Just the same as plenty of people in Europe now buy Japanese cars despite there being a huge car industry in Europe.
Counterbalanced by the upside that the librarians don't have to do double duty as pest control, although the absurd mental image of them handling the task in a similar fashion as the bats doing it is rather amusing.
