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I actually have no idea of the number of bat/blade encounters. It was supposed to be a joke, hence the comment on the fact that the bat was already on the endangered list. Oh well.
Of course if it turns out the bat did indeed have rabies, I'll know I knew more than I knew I knew.
I actually have no idea of the number of bat/blade encounters. It was supposed to be a joke, hence the comment on the fact that the bat was already on the endangered list. Oh well.
Of course if it turns out the bat did indeed have rabies, I'll know I knew more than I knew I knew.
I got it,....flying into various objects may be the reason they are "endangered"......
No doubt those green environmentalist wing nuts are flogging themselves over this right now.
Why is someone nuts when they want to protect a species? If you cannot understand it in humane terms or in respect and admiration for the natural world terms, maybe you can understand it in monetary terms...
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Bats in North America are under a two-pronged attack but they are not the only victim -- so is the U.S. economy. Gary McCracken, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, analyzed the economic impact of the loss of bats in North America in agriculture and found it to be in the $3.7 to $53 billion a year range.
Windmills stopped at night after bat death - BostonHerald.com (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20111018windmills_stopped_at_night_after_bat_death/srvc=home%26position=recent - broken link)
If only this had been a nuclear power plant or a coal-burning power plant then this tragedy could have been averted. Oh the humanity!
Someone was listening to Rush today. I know cause I heard this today too. Do you mimic every topic of his?
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