I'm John Batcher with Michael Jan, who's just returned from Lake

atan, which is the source of water needed for the Panama Canal.

For weeks now, we've been reporting on a drought throughout Central America but especially at the

Panama Canal which is obliged the the operators of the canal to cut back on the traffic, a much longer line to get through, and when the

traffic arrives it has to offload its cargo and train across the isthmus and then perhaps pick up the cargo at the other end. In other words, a lot slower

transit. Now Michael's just come back from the canal itself out on Lake

Catan and he's going to introduce us to a swimming monkey.

Michael, what did you find in Lake Qatar?

Yeah, that's right. We were just out in Gatoon Lake and it was, there was a monkey swimming across the canal.

I was out there with Brett Weinstein and Chris Martinson and Masako Ganaha, the journalist from Japan,

and some other friends, and we were coming back from you know just

rummaging around we were looking for for instance some bats that Brett studies

Brett has studied the sort of bat called a tent making bat and

we've been out in the jungles looking for these things that's pretty cool

actually Brett's a biologist, evolutionary biologist and so and he studied in Panama, he studied on Barrow, Colorado Island for those who are

familiar with Panama, you know what I mean, it's a Smithsonian research facility.

And so, so we were just out on the canal and we were on our way

back and you know everybody's getting kind of hot and tired and dry even

though you're drinking as much water as you can out there and we're coming back and we saw something swimming.

We're like, what's that thing?

You know, at first it looked like maybe an otter we got closer.

It was a monkey swimming across the

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