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Why people crawl through caves to find blind insects

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Highly trained individuals willingly squeeze themselves into claustrophobic rocky tunnels deep below the surface without flinching. The ultimate reward for inching through total darkness on their stomach is usually just finding a new species of completely blind cave cricket.

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