- Hello Jeff - I cannot believe that such a nonsensical
proposal was even discussed and put into a study. Have these
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- 'researchers' totally lost their minds? I mean,
to even propose such a thing, is sheer stupidity. I am quickly losing
faith in the so-called 'scientific' community. Totally insane.
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- First of all, bats are not like mammals who can easily
replenish their numbers. Bats, in a good year, only have one pup. After
a traumatic event as White Nose Syndrome and a human created event such
as a cull, bats would probably not be able to reproduce normally for some
time.
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- As we discussed last night, some bat experts at the USGS,
believe that, even the ubiquitous Little Brown Bat, could go extinct in
the North East and also in North America. How can any one with half a
brain propose culling bats?
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- I would like to give an award to the researchers who
proposed such a bat cull - the "Most Insane & Stupid Idea"
award.
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- Patty
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- Study - Bat Cull Won't Stop Disease Crisis
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- By NewsDesk - iWireNews
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- KNOXVILLE, TN -- A proposal to cull bat populations
will not halt the spread of a disease that has killed a million bats in
the United States since 2006, a study says.
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- Researchers at the University of Tennessee say a study
of how the fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome is passed from bat
to bat suggests a cull would not stop its spread, the BBC reported Friday.
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- "Given the dispersal aspect of the problem and the
complexity of hibernating bat ecology, it was a case that these things
together certainly meant that culling would not work in the case of bats,"
Thomas Hallam from the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
says.
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- There is a high degree of bat-to-bat interaction, which
has been identified as the main way the disease is transmitted, during
the course of a year, Hallam says.
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- Once present in a colony, white-nose syndrome can wipe
out the entire colony's population, scientists say.
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- WNS, considered by some researchers as the worst wildlife
health crisis in the United States, is named after a white fungus that
grows on the muzzle and wings of infected animals.
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- Since WNS was first discovered in February 2006 in a
cave in New York, it has spread to at least 14 states and a number of Canadian
provinces.
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- http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=270003&catid=60
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