Australia's Heat Wave Fries Bats' Brains, Hundreds Found Dead

[bad Chad]

Holy Bat Farts, it's hot down their!

Sadly, many bats, likely in the thousands have died from an extreme heat wave affecting parts of the "big Island". 

I think we all can agree, extremes at either end of the thermometer suck!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/576908629/australias-heat-wave-fries-bats-brains-hundreds-found-dead

[Green1000S]

 Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.

Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.

[Ncdan]

Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.

Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.

Maybe the boiling point is lower in OZ land :)

[Lannis]

Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.

Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.

The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there. 

What's next,  bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?

Lannis

[guzzisteve]

Maybe they are right up there w/squirrel brains.

[Guzzi Gal]

Poor babies!   

The hottest I've endured (unofficially) was 126 F.  They shut down Sky Harbor International at 118 F so I think they intentionally under-report the temperature by placing the sensor high, over plantlife, well away from the tarmac, and in permanent shade. 

[pete roper]

They aren't 'Poor Babies' they are disgusting rats with wings that carry the lyssa virus which is a sub form of rabies! There are far too many of them as their habitat has been greatly enlarged since European settlement. While a dose of lead poisoning would be more humane the fact a few of them died of heatstroke worries me not a jot!

Pete

[SmithSwede]

Pete, do you like bats?

[balvenie]

The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there. 

What's next,  bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?Lannis

Luv it Lannis

[balvenie]

They aren't 'Poor Babies' they are disgusting rats with wings that carry the lyssa virus which is a sub form of rabies! There are far too many of them as their habitat has been greatly enlarged since European settlement. While a dose of lead poisoning would be more humane the fact a few of them died of heatstroke worries me not a jot!Pete

The D#$n things stink to high heaven. I don't know how people put up with them, what with having to keep their windows closed etc

[oldbike54]

The D#$n things stink to high heaven. I don't know how people put up with them, what with having to keep their windows closed etc

 Wait ... Australia is where half the flora and 3/4 of the fauna are capable of killing a man before you can say Bob's your uncle , and it's the way a bat smells that scares you   

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

Wait ... Australia is where half the flora and 3/4 of the fauna are capable of killing a man before you can say Bob's your uncle , and it's the way a bat smells that scares you   

 Dusty

I always thought they smelled the regular way.  What's scary about that?

[chuck peterson]

So here in us of a we have iquanas falling from trees!....just the Endtimes is all...

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/weather/iguana-cold-florida-bomb-cyclone-trnd/index.html

[Bluerobotz]

The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there. 

What's next,  bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?

Lannis

Actually there are quite a few who can cook "down here". Are you one of those who think that the earth ends past Murica?

Thanks, Dave.

Email address/phone number/address supplied on request (by pm) to avoid being classed as a Troll.

[Lannis]

Actually there are quite a few who can cook "down here". Are you one of those who think that the earth ends past Murica?

Thanks, Dave.

Email address/phone number/address supplied on request (by pm) to avoid being classed as a Troll.

It's a JOKE!   The news decided that bats were either being fried or boiled, and I responded with a Monty Python quote.

Damn, talk about a hair trigger .... !

And to be honest, if you've got data prepared to defend against Trolling charges, your conscience is probably telling you something ... 

Lannis

[yogidozer]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

[oldbike54]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

 Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker 

 Dusty

[yogidozer]

Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker 

 Dusty

I don't know ox's that well 

[oldbike54]

I don't know ox's that well 

 

 Dusty

[Lannis]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

Assignment for the next Rainy Day:

Defend the thesis "The Use and Importance of Houseflies" in 250 words or less .... 

Lannis

[webmost]

Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker 

 Dusty

I tried oxpecker once... but that was on another forum

[pehayes]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

Quite true!  Except that the particular bats in question in the Australian heat are Flying Foxes or megachiroptera.  They eat fruit and flowers, not insects except for the casual collateral ingestion while munching fruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat

Now for some Guzzi content, there is a Guzzi Falcone owner in Perth who helps to rehabilitate injured and orphaned Fruit Bats in his home.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[shaka]

The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there. 

What's next,  bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?








The appetizer is a trough of baked beans garnished with a couple dead dogs.

Lannis

[Kent in Upstate NY]

My sister vacationed in Palau where her husband tried the Fruit Bat Soup.

[LowRyter]

Mass extinctions speed the natural selection process and evolution.  Evolution is wrongly thought to be slow. 

Environmental cataclysms and geographic separation can separate species.

[Lannis]

Mass extinctions speed the natural selection process and evolution.  Evolution is wrongly thought to be slow. 

That's not the only thing that evolution is wrongly thought to be, long as we're on the subject ... !! 

[LowRyter]

Lannis, Since I don't get your meaning and you're afraid of causing a shitstorm, feel free to PM me.

Although, I must admit that I do enjoy it when you tweak Dusty.   

[nc43bsa]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

And mosquitoes. 

[yogidozer]

hmm, if there were no bats, would there still be batchit crazy people? something to ponder on a cold, cold, winter night.

[screamday]

bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!

Ya but, some of the insects that live down under would probably make lunch out of the bats.