> 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 <mmin...@nmhu.edu> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit > our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: > texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: > texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
