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Post by joymarty on Feb 9, 2020 13:26:31 GMT -5
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Post by Warrigal on Feb 12, 2020 4:26:36 GMT -5
This is what happens when their habitat and food sources are eliminated.
They are a health hazard because they carry certain deadly viruses such ad Hendra and Lyssa that affect horses and people although such infections are rare. The main problem is that they stink and devastate the roosting trees.
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Post by helen on Feb 12, 2020 10:17:18 GMT -5
Wildlife acts on instinct. Since they are pollinators, maybe Mother Nature kick started pollination in response to recent fires destroying so much vegetation. She acts in mysterious ways.
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Post by dragonlady on Feb 12, 2020 15:11:06 GMT -5
Or the destruction of so many bees by insecticides
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Post by Warrigal on Feb 12, 2020 20:30:40 GMT -5
Fruit bats are builders of rainforests because they eat the fruits of the forest and eliminate the seeds, thus contributing to regrowth after fires. They don't only eat the fruit of rainforest plants like giant fig trees. They also eat cultivated fruits, much to the concern of the growers.
On a hot Summer night where I live if you go outside just after sundown you can see fruit bats flying silently overhead. Some of them come to a sad end on the street power lines and they hang there forlornly for such a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 14:41:54 GMT -5
What a terrible situation. Those bats are big!
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