II. Directions: Underline the main idea of the text, encircle the important details then write a two-sentence summary. Today, the survival of many bat species is uncertain. Sixty percent of bats do not survive pas Infancy. Some are killed by predators such as owls, hawks, snakes, and other meat-eating creatures, but most are victims of pesticides and other human intrusions. In Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, where there once eight million bats, there are now a quarter million. At Eagle Creek, Arizona, the bat population dropped from thirty million to thirty thousand in six years. (Dean, D., 2020)​