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100,000 Bats Fall Dead From Heatwave In Australia (Video)
About 100,000 bats have fallen from the sky and died during a heatwave in Australia that has left the trees and earth littered with dead creatures.
In scenes likened to “an Alfred Hitchock thought bubble”, a heatwave across the north-east state of Queensland in recent days caused mass deaths of flying foxes from an estimated 25 colonies.
“It’s a horrible, cruel way to die,” a conservation worker, Louise Saunders, told The Courier Mail.
This is so sad. I love Bats even though they give me the creeps. Growing up in New York I always saw bats in the sky right at dusk mostly. Gave the darkening skies the coolest ambience. I felt like I was on the set of Dracula or something. It is certainly a time of extremes right now as record cold grips the US and heat Australia. Record highs and record lows. -Mort
