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100,000 Bats Fall Dead From Heatwave In Australia (Video)

Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:00
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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

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