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Cold winters drive great tits to eat bats, reports expert
timesonline ^
| September 9, 2009
Posted on 09/10/2009 4:41:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A much-loved garden bird has been exposed as a ruthless killer after being observed seeking out and eating hibernating bats.
The great tits were provoked into the unusual behaviour after suffering food shortages during particularly harsh winter weather.
Over the course of two winters, ornithologists observed the birds searching for, killing and eating 18 bats in caves in the Bükk Mountains in northeast Hungary.
The birds normally live on seeds and insects such as caterpillars and spiders but during the winter these can be in very scarce supply. In particular, snow cover can make it impossible for the great tits to find food.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: aheartthisthread; godsgravesglyphs; nocomment; tits
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To: JoeProBono
We can't have a thread about great tits without at least one photo of Katy Perry!
What??? This thread is about BIRDS???
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posted on
09/10/2009 4:59:19 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: JoeProBono
This thread has some amazing potential...
22
posted on
09/10/2009 5:00:13 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Nemo me impune lacesset)
To: JoeProBono
God, I lift the posters of this thread up to you. It will be only by your Grace that it doesn't slide into the depths of depravity.
Oh, too late. This could be the longest thread of the night. Maybe the week.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:01:10 PM PDT
by
chuckles
To: Drew68
What??? This thread is about BIRDS???Then I guess this picture is entirely inappropriate on many levels and should be ignored completely.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:03:30 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs.)
To: freedumb2003
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:04:28 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(If you believe you can tell me what to think, I believe I can tell you where to go.)
To: JoeProBono
Mmmm...am I supposed to feed mine?
To: JoeProBono
Contemplating a “Louisville Slugger” tatoo.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:09:39 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Mmmm...am I supposed to feed mine?
Keyboard is ruined—major LOL
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:10:25 PM PDT
by
bamabound
(teach them how to think, not what to think!)
To: RichInOC
“a case of tit for bat”
Snort.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:14:44 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
To: JoeProBono
I thought this was an Ornithology thread, but, aside from the first photo, most have been of mammals...with big glands...except for the little girl eating an Arachnid, which I think falls under aberrant social behavior.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:15:48 PM PDT
by
crazyhorse691
(Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
To: JoeProBono
What is a titmouse anyway? I have heard of trouser trouts, one eyed rats, screaming eagles, etc. But a titmouse? Don’t they scratch the soft parts?
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:16:26 PM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
To: JoeProBono
I have any number of ribald jokes I could type up but I think I will just read what the other FReeper wits have to say about it.:)
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:16:51 PM PDT
by
calex59
(Hope for a new job counts for creating a job! The dimwits are truly insane.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:17:44 PM PDT
by
crazyhorse691
(Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
To: JoeProBono
They don’t look like such great tits to me....
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:19:25 PM PDT
by
Adder
(Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
To: JoeProBono
They're real.. and they're spectacular.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:20:43 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: JoeProBono
Do I dare to unhook this?
To: andy58-in-nh
Here is something I NEVER would have guessed I could say here on FR:
Is that a picture of FIVE tits?
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:24:58 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(I remember when the United States was a free country. I feel old.)
To: JoeProBono
FEED your tits. Make them great.
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:27:04 PM PDT
by
roamer_1
(It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
To: JoeProBono
I’ve seen great Tits before and those aren’t great Tits!
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posted on
09/10/2009 5:27:17 PM PDT
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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