"It got really hot and suddenly started raining foxes from the trees," said Welbergen, who witnessed the die-off. "It was quite gruesome. This colony had between 20,000 and 30,000 animals and about 10 percent of those individuals died." If 107 degrees kills foxes, wouldn't all 30,000 of them fallen out of the trees, not just 10 percent?
If 107 degrees kills foxes, wouldn't all 30,000 of them fallen out of the trees, not just 10 percent?Case in point. This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Called "thinning the herd." Mother Nature's way of practising eugenics. Instead of a crew of 30,000 motley bats, she now has a hardier crew of 27,000 heat resistant bats.