> I sortof like the scenario of bats developing into a co-dependent
> relationship with humans - like a parallel of the wolf's transformation
> into dogs - how about "Chiroptera Familiaris?"
>
> Imagine the range of Chihuahua to Great Dane
> applied to flying mammals!
>
> Look - I taught my bat to catch a frisbee!
>
> -Batmanuel
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Minton, Mark wrote:
>Nancy Weaver said:
>
> >How on earth have bats managed to survive so long without thoughtful
> human intervention? Or any other part of nature? Good thing we can now
> remedy nature's poor planning.
>
> It might not have been nature's poor planning. No one knows where
> WNS came from. We don't know if it the fungus associated with WNS is the
> cause of the problem or a symptom, merely taking advantage of bats
> distressed by some other factor. If something else is weakening bats in the
> first place, it could be something manmade, like a pesticide. If we caused
> the problem, it is not unreasonable for us to try to remedy it, although
> obviously heated bat houses do not address the root cause, whatever it is.
> For another article on the heated bat houses see <
> http://blogs.discovery.com/news_animal/2009/03/hibernating-cave-bats-receive-heaters.html
> >.
>
> Mark Minton
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