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- MeganMcKenzie
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- added July 24, 2008
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I think it's probably all the radio frequencies bouncing around everywhere that are killing the bats and birds.
Scary crap.
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This could have disasterous consequences for all. In the south there is a rise in rabies among bat populations. These creatures are a vital part of the eco-system. They are not cute or cuddly so they get ignored or worse. This situation sounds dire.
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I wonder if it has any relation to the bee population disappearing?
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what's bothersome to me is this is the 2nd time this has happened
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- goldenways
- 12 months ago
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Bees, birds, bats . . . what do they all have in common they would be most suseptible to?
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I know its very bad for the environment and a frightening sign of the state of the ecosystem and all that, but my mother for one will be pleased. She still quakes in her boots (well, slippers) at the mere mention of a bat, almost 20 years since she woke up to find one tangled in her hair (supreme 80's perms have a lot to answer for). I think we should get started on moths next. Wipe them out!
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- LindseyIndigo
- 12 months ago
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I so tired of that. Why are people more afraid of bats and bees then impending doom.
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- cursedasfunk
- 12 months ago
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This is depressing. Our environment is withering and whole species of animals are feeling the consequences.
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add fish to the list.
insecticide goes a long way....
We may eventually take a look at what is so obvious about all of this. Then again, with the new 40th Anniversary Edition of Silent Spring, maybe not.
This is not rocket science yet we hold endless debate and write endless copy about the mystery of all this dying ecosystem around us. Our ecosystem is naturally a living and dying thing. We are simply hurrying up the dying process and the living process just can't keep up anymore. We load poisons into the environment and then wonder why things fall out of the sky. This kind of thing has been understood for many many years and now we get to see it live and in person.
If you eat poison you die. Do we really still need to keep studying this?
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hopefully its not batman lol
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- Crenshaw_Brothers
- 12 months ago
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That's horrible. They get a bad rap, but bats are awesome.
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okay whats next ? people. I may be scared to death of bats . but don't wanna see them die.. its terrible
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Bees, Bats, and Birds... all just dropping dead, sounds like an M. Night Shyamalan film.
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- Bigdog_mike
- 12 months ago
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...so there is a great article in The New yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert about the history of LAWN (that grassy stuff that you mow).
in the quest for the perfect mono culture (green grass) we have designed a long list of ways to fail our ecosystem.
1. We start with importing grass that should not be there in the first place.
2. We mow it..... "Mowing turfgrass quite literally cuts off the option of sexual reproduction. From the gardener’s perspective, the result is a denser, thicker mat of green. From the grasses’ point of view, the result is a perpetual state of vegetable adolescence"
3. we want it to last longer so we sowe use... "synthetic fertilizer (to) counteract turfgrasses’ seasonal cycle by, in effect, tricking the plants into putting out new growth"
4. We use synthetic herbicides to keep the weeds out.
5. Due to these herbicides and this, lovely looking, green mono culture certain "pests" and grubs come in and start eating the green grass and it goes brown.
6. We spray those "pests" with synthetic pesticides so they will "KEEP OFF THE GRASS"
7. Birds and bats and other creatures eat these bugs and die.
8. Run off from suburbia goes into the rivers and washes into the oceans and kills things and mutilates birth cycles and does all kinds of nifty stuff that (my guess is) nature would prefer not to do.
9. Someone is making piles of money at every step of the way cause it takes a lot of green to get that lovely green.
...and that is just us talking about lawns here.! It is a great article worth a read.
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Bats do everything that birds do, except that bats do it in the dark.
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OK, here is the truth of it all. It is the cockroachs. Cockroaches have been around for 350 million years. Cockroaches are the dominant species on this planet and always have been. They kept the dinosaurs as pets until the dinosaurs started getting too big and clumsy. So the cockroaches set off a huge bomb and blew them all to smithereens. Of coarse, they TOLD everyone it was an asteroid, there has NEVER been a fossilized cockroach found anywhere near the site of the "asteroid impact". Of coarse not. They all left. THEY set off the blast. And they all sat around and said "OOOOOHHHHHH, AAAAAAHHHHH at the orange fireball as it floated off...............
Later, they made pets out of humans because they could be handy to have around and do all sorts of things for them. Like kill off all the birds and bats that eat cockroaches. Build houses for them to live in. Make lots of tasty garbage for them to eat. And when the humans started getting too pesky like the dinosaurs----the cockroaches will just get rid of them the same way. You didn't REALLY think it was Albert Einstein that thought up The General Theory of Relativity did you? HELL NO, it was cockroaches whispering in his ear, E=Mc2 while he was sleeping. So, all the cockroaches have to do now is wait. After the explosion, they will come back out and start all over again. Just like they have always done...........................
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they're all disappearing to gather for the coming plagues
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- shadowtrekker
- 12 months ago
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The timing on this one is awfully suspicious. It might just be some kind of despairing gesture in response to The Dark Knight. You know...their species co-opted, no profits for them.
They also do a lot of pollinating..we are getting to the point of being truly screwed.
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Screwed is right; these guys are important (so are bees for that matter), and we're killing them all. Lemme think, yeah, that's pretty damn short-sighted.
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This is so sad, I love bats.
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It's insecticide and hybrid insect resistant crops. We cannot poison a part of the food chain without the rest of that chain becoming effected. Hybrid insect resistant crops are a plague.
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Riddle me this
Riddle me that
Whos afraid that were killing off the
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I think it's cell phones. From my understanding, bats are very sensitive to vibrations and even energy waves. Maybe the signals emitted from cell towers screw up their senses and makes them do things they wouldn't do under normal circumstances, like flying into walls and other obstacle, or making them easier pray for predators.
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wow, no wonder i'm getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. i wish there was a bat roost nearby :(
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- hella_cereal
- 12 months ago
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Seriously, are you guys talking about cellphones and radios and shit even reading the article?
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- RudyRudell
- 12 months ago
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