4,300 Years of Bat Poop From The Depths of a Jamaican Cave Have Revealed Earth's Past

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 14 APRIL 2021 | DAVID NIELD

[Red Badger]

But it’s a fertile environment!...............

[blueunicorn6]

“Hi Mr Grooms! How is your son Chris doing?”

“He’s digging through bat shirt.”

“Oh.....I see.....well, say hi from me.”

[Rurudyne]

Poopsayers

[Rurudyne]

On one level how is that different than many other tasks given to grad students?

[blueunicorn6]

Well, you’ve got me there.

Correcting tests can be as bad as digging through bat shirt.

Usually doesn’t smell as bad, though.

[Chode]

[ckilmer]

There was a spike in plant sterols in the bats’ diet around a thousand years ago, the researchers found – corresponding with the Medieval Warm Period (900-1,300 CE), when it’s thought the Americas were particularly dry.

Another plant sterol spike was found from around 1,350 BCE, at a time known as the Minoan Warm Period. Drier conditions typically make life more difficult for insects, and during these times the bats were snacking more often on fruits.
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These two periods of drying climate change correspond with the collapse of the Mayans and the Bronze Age Collapse.

[Paperpusher]

Wait, wait. What could have caused Medieval Warm Period and the Minoan Warm Period when no factories or cars were around?
Darn clever these Medieval and Minoan people to do this without Al Gore around.

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, four of 'em, hence the expression, four sooth.

[Carriage Hill]

The ammonia will choke you, like chicken manure. Doubtful, this old stuff has any of that left, but you never know what’s buried in the layers.

[a fool in paradise]

If you ask me, it’s a buncha bat guano

[SunkenCiv]

It’s bat guano crazy!

[PLMerite]

“PinGGG!.......................Guano! Guano! Guano!”

To the tune of “Quando, quando, quando”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pxDtai-sEM

[DEPcom]

Maybe Covid-19 came from Jamaica.

[Red Badger]

Jamaican me sick!.......................

[Sequoyah101]

So they “learned” what most intelligent people have known for a long time now. That is has been warmer and colder than now and that animals adapt or die.

Big friggin’ woop.

[heavy metal]

chinese probably make soup out of that crap...

[SERE_DOC]

"Another plant sterol spike was found from around 1,350 BCE, at a time known as the Minoan Warm Period. Drier conditions typically make life more difficult for insects, and during these times the bats were snacking more often on fruits."

All telling, that is some deepshi......

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Somebody said that certain bat guano is a delicacy.

Probably the Mexicans or the French.

Cinco de mayo es veinte uno dias. Viva la Frances!

I crack me up.

5.56mm

[Red Badger]

Cinco de Mayonnaise!..............