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- sonaboy, on 03/26/2008, -4/+36first bees, now bats, not good.
- badwithcomputer, on 03/26/2008, -5/+24I've said it before and I'll say it again- the people running 'The Dark Knight' viral campaign are good. DAMN good.
- inactive, on 03/26/2008, -13/+28This is what a collapsing ecosystem looks like.
- SmurfyBrown, on 03/26/2008, -1/+16this is definitely bad news...
but assuming that the bat populations don't die out, wouldn't the overabundance of insects at least make their rebound easier? - SquigglyP, on 03/26/2008, -0/+12good thing it wasn't anything cute, eh?
Maybe you aren't aware but a lot of things eat bats - Hawks especially - and if there are no bats, there's a good chance they will also decline in numbers. Which means that smaller birds and rodents will become more plentiful. Which means that competition for food among those creatures will grow and the things they eat will become more scarce. ***** like this spreads further than you are obviously aware and can affect your life in a number of ways. - JohnyD, on 03/26/2008, -0/+11Bingo. People keep killing bugs whether it be with insecticides on their farms or just lawn care. I figure it's starting with bugs.... but I could be wrong.. It could start at a much lower level in the food chain.
- hakz, on 03/26/2008, -2/+12probably at war with the bees
- JLecker, on 03/26/2008, -3/+12I'm sure pollution was one of the first thoughts that popped in the scientists' heads. However, it seems like they really have no idea what is causing such a massive dying-off. I think we ought to wait and see what they can find out before shouting "OMG EXXON IS COMMITTING BAT GENOCIDE".
- pgoetz, on 03/26/2008, -1/+10You misspelled your login name, razorsharptwit.
- inactive, on 03/26/2008, -0/+8Don't bats eat all those annoying incests that usually bother us in the summer? First it was bees, I wonder which species will be vanishing next.
- OBDriftwood, on 03/26/2008, -4/+10Could it be because the pitchers are all hopped up on steroids and throwing harder fastballs?
- SquigglyP, on 03/26/2008, -2/+8before jumping to conclusions let's find out for sure what exactly is going on. I'm all for cleaning up the planet, but it could very well just be some new strand of disease or some other cause. Assuming it's pollution could lead to ignoring the true cause and more bats will die before we realize it's something else.
- justok, on 03/26/2008, -5/+10please open your eyes to the world around you
- jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5You must be a hit at parties.
- paintist, on 03/26/2008, -0/+4I suffered from White Nose Syndrome all through the 1980s
- inactive, on 03/26/2008, -2/+6Holy deaths Batman!
- badwithcomputer, on 03/26/2008, -1/+5it's okay, tony- we can still be e-friends.
- bjornski, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3I don't know if you're just trolling, or if you really are as ignorant as you present yourself to be.
- Angostura, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3Frogs
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538983/ - aladrin, on 03/26/2008, -1/+4You're asking him how he knows that all animals can get diseases? Seriously? Did you study biology -at all-?
- badwithcomputer, on 03/26/2008, -1/+4http://digg.com/general_sciences/Why_are_thousands ...
yeah. they really let me have it.
just how bad do you really think i am with this computer? - libkarl2, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3Yes. They eat mosquitoes and other flying insects. No other animal feeds on mosquitoes to the extent that bats do. Not frogs, not birds, nothing. Bats are the first and last word on mosquito control. Mosquitoes are an alpha disease vector. When bats die off in large numbers like this, it is A Very Bad Thing(tm).
- bjornski, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3Who is Shea?
Your comment history is quite humorous reading. What a hateful dick. - wproden, on 03/26/2008, -2/+5Very very worrying - how long before one of the keystone species collapses? As said above, this is how ecosystem collapse begins - the little fringe species start disappearing and before you know it........... Silent Spring all over again!!!
Will post this story on our site in the hope it creates more awareness - aninconvenientblog.co.uk - inactive, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3 I'm glad this is on Digg because it's interesting and important in my opinion. However, it's also another example for me of how late in the news cycle Digg usually is. This is a subject that I've heard at least 3 separate radio programs and a couple news articles covering the progression of over the past year. I understand this is pretty good New York times article, but there's been allot of information about this being published for a long time now.
I love Digg. However, news-wise, I learn more about the current political and economic news of the day (and even science and tech issues) even just listening to public radio on the way to and from work than from an entire week of front-page Digg submissions.
For all the "new media"'s worth, I still, most of the time, learn things of concern sooner and more in depth from public radio, newspapers' websites and weeklies I subscribe to like the New Yorker.
Is is just my personal habits or are things like Digg (wonderful as they are) not all they're cracked up to be?
This isn't a problem for me. But I do find it incongruous with the impression most people using Digg seem to get from it and it's relevance. - inactive, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3We're all screwed with the clearcutting of the rainforests anyway (sad to say); hard to operate w/o your lungs.
- smackphat, on 03/26/2008, -2/+5Governments aren't people and they will never care. They are systems and are designed to consume and grow. Will you feed them my children? How about yours? Dummy. Why don't you do something about it? Set a good example. Write an editorial. But ***** you for wringing your hands and asking the government to help.
- solesoul, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3Its because nobody hearts bees.
Apparently nobody hearts bats either. - bjornski, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Not anymore, now it's mosquito country.
/but dugg up for the "Fear and Loathing" reference.... - inactive, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Chinook Salmon
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/02/28/where-ha ...
(but pro just overfishing?) - liuite, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2does that mean the price of bat guano will go through the roof?...time to trade on bat guano future
- dinobot, on 03/26/2008, -1/+3We can't stop here, this is bat country!
- chrisc801, on 03/26/2008, -2/+4Bat Flu
- tgelston, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Sorry you are wrong. The powdery stuff on their noses is fungus naturally found in the caves. It usually isn't a problem for the bats but the warmer than average winter in some parts of new york has caused the bats to wake up and become active, when the temps then quickly drop they are getting sick. Sick bats don't clean themselves as often as healthy bats and the fungus starts to grow. Climate change is probably the root cause. 1/4 to 1/2 degree difference in a cave can really change the health of the ecosystem.
- Blueshrike, on 03/26/2008, -1/+3It's Wi-Fi penetration.
- charbo187, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2did anyone ever figure out the bee situation??
- krista08, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2It doesn't look good for our own survival.
- xxTazxx, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2First bees, now bats. Who is to say this cannot happen to humans?
- nusuni, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Jeeze, wish the bats in my back yard would die. last summer was pretty bad for bats up where i live (upstate NY), there was at least 30 times I went out to the shed and was greeted by a bunch of our flying friends. It almost never happened during previous summers. I suppose on the bright side the bugs weren't as bad - but still - getting a bat in your hair is never fun.
- mos6507, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2They don't call it a mass extinction event for nothing.
- hfactor, on 03/26/2008, -2/+4You are bothered by incest in the summer?
- derscoundrel, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1so can all the other plants and animals, ass. it's called evolution.
gawd, i'm tired of humans seeing ourselves as exempt from the natural order. - loopyloopy, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1ok fair enough. mosquitos suck.
- rjmoriarty, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I guess we're about to find out what it looks like when a bunch of bats fly out of hell.
- bChico, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Somewhere, Count Chocula is scared for his life!
- 2oonhed, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1 Last year I started notating the comings & goings of the
local bird population. Not that I identify species, I'm not that into it that much.
I did notice that the first birds that returned last Feb 8 2007 came in like gangbusters.
They were noisy, boisterous, eating everything in sight, and there was A LOT of em.
We have some kind of berry trees here, red berries that fall on the ground in the winter.
Well, they went ape ***** over those berries in the trees & on the ground, until they were all gone.
It was like a hysterical bird party here everyday.
Then the littler birds came in & I was feeding em bread crumbs for a couple of months.
There was giant flocks o the little critters that settled over the whole neighborhood.
This year?.......I noticed the first returns on Feb 27 and they do not look too happy.
They came in late, bedraggled, not chirping much, not eating much, and I can count the ones
in our trees on my fingers. It's was like they were worn out and just resting at first,
now they just sit in the tree like they are waiting to die.
Only one little wren returned to where I was feeding them last year on this one little corner of my front
steps that I can see from my window.
So I don't know if they all got hammered by the weather this year or if they got poisoned from a bad pond
or bad feed, or what. It seems a bad sign, whatever the reason.
Location : The Great Northwestern United States. - dylio, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1^ we're in the 3rd mass extinction period atm.
- marcomc2, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Its cause Batman needs to come out already, theyre tired of waiting, ***** I want to see The Dark Knight
- rodgerdodger5, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Quote from the article.
"When they awoke, they made high squeaks, like someone sucking a tooth." ?! - bjornski, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Yeah, they do that. If the zoo in your area has a bat exhibit, go see it. It's really quite cool. Bats are awesome. I even had a gothy type friend who had 2 of them as pets. Really cute little buggers.
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