The world's largest urban bat colony in Austin, TX.
Posted on 10/19/2014 7:07:16 AM PDT by dennisw
In David Quammen's Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus he recounts one of the first reorded Ebola epidemics. It began when some villagers found a dead, bloated, chimpanzee and, despite it's condition, decided to cook and eat it anyway. Anyone who handled the rotten meat died, as did most of the village before the epidemic ran it course, eventually claiming over fifty victims. What you cannot help thinking is how absolutely careless and stupid those people were.
LOL!
Fruit bats have something in common with humans.
Unlike most animals, you know, dogs, cats, cows, mice, yada yada yada fruit bats AND humans do not make their own vitamin C.
There are only a dozen or so species like this on the planet.
...gleefully lunching on bushmeat...
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Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell lunch plans?
Fruit bats in particular and only...so it seems on Vitamin C
Man did I set up a double-encondre (sp?).
You should have to go stand in the corner for bombing that mind picture on us right at lunch time. No tuna for me.
How many thousands of years have they been doing this? Recon that could be why, except for TV and cell phones, they live pretty much like they did 10,000 years ago?
This is the government culture the majority wanted here? Elections do have consequences, hope we survive this one.
The world's largest urban bat colony in Austin, TX.
Bush Meat is smuggled into America as well, has been for a long time. Google has plenty on this subject.
I was stationed at Ft. Clayton in the Canal Zone when I was in the army. All the barracks were 3 storied with tiled roofs where the bats would stay in during the day. In the evening they would come swarming out of the roof tiles by the thousands.........It was kinda cool watching them then in the morning they'd return and fly back up into them......
So long as the bats in Texas don’t pass it on to armadillos, were might be relatively safe.
I guess “live” is the operate word there. Those that don’t more often live.
Maybe the armadillos will give the bats leprosy, and they’ll all die.
Except now, even those that don’t partake of bushmeat get its result.
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