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Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby PYoungbaer » Apr 8, 2012 7:14 am

Not native to Hawaii, how did this bat get there? Did the state think to test it for WNS as well as rabies?

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/146182965.html?id=146182965

And then there's this one from Korea:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/113247859.html
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby JSDunham » Apr 8, 2012 4:50 pm

...in a press release today, USFW advised all bats to avoid traveling on planes or boats so that they can focus on controlling cavers. Said one official, "bats traveling on planes and boats undercuts our entire speculative case for cavers spreading WNS by removing our one piece of circumstantial evidence. We've already spent so long saying they do, it would be tough to change, so we're asking bats to cooperate so we can focus on what we've decided the real issue is."
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby Cheryl Jones » Apr 8, 2012 7:53 pm

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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby tncaver » Apr 8, 2012 8:30 pm

All the links mentioned above describe examples of translocation of bats. They show how a live WNS infected bat from Europe could have made it to New York, don't you think? :doh: But of course USFWS is deaf, dumb and blind. Just imagine...if SPACE wasn't void of air, that rocket might have translocated
a bat to the moon or some other planet. :rofl:

Seriously, maybe Peter Y., should copy and paste some of those examples from Hawaii and print them out and mail them via registered mail to the USFWS so he can prove that they are aware of the FACT that bats can translocate across the ocean.
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby BrianC » Apr 10, 2012 2:50 pm

tncaver wrote:
Seriously, maybe Peter Y., should copy and paste some of those examples from Hawaii and print them out and mail them via registered mail to the USFWS so he can prove that they are aware of the FACT that bats can translocate across the ocean.

I would hope that Peter has already done that. The article That peter provides links for on the other recent thread has me really angry, and does require some rebuttal as I posted on that thread. The only reason that the human transmission notion has been ongoing is because that it becomes sensational to the human hatters club, and requires money being spent because they think humans did this! They do not want other scenarios to be considered. What a crock! Rebuttal, Rebuttal, Rebuttal!
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby PYoungbaer » Apr 10, 2012 3:27 pm

Brian,

I contacted the author (not the person responsible for the headline), and she contacted the editor with my lengthy reply. She said they are going to change the headline and a line in the article (which was her responsibility) to underscore the speculative nature. She did not intend to mislead, and said she was also shocked by the headline.
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby BrianC » Apr 10, 2012 5:57 pm

PYoungbaer wrote:Brian,

I contacted the author (not the person responsible for the headline), and she contacted the editor with my lengthy reply. She said they are going to change the headline and a line in the article (which was her responsibility) to underscore the speculative nature. She did not intend to mislead, and said she was also shocked by the headline.


The question with major concern, Where did she get her information in the first place?

By the way Peter, Thank You for your quick reply!
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby Cheryl Jones » Apr 13, 2012 11:22 pm

Bat flew today from Wisconsin to Atlanta on Delta flight :bananabat:
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morn ... 2012-04-13
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby rebelfirefighter » May 2, 2012 10:02 pm

Has WNS been found on bats hanging out in other areas besides caves? Theres a ton of places bats like to call home other than caves.
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby Cheryl Jones » May 2, 2012 10:20 pm

Only in cave hibernating bats. The fungus likes the cold and damp of a cave.
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Re: Little Brown Bat Hitches Ride to Hawaii

Postby nathanroser » May 2, 2012 10:27 pm

rebelfirefighter wrote:Has WNS been found on bats hanging out in other areas besides caves? Theres a ton of places bats like to call home other than caves.


There's the mines of course, a colony in an abandoned fort in Delaware got infected. And while they weren't sick the fungus has been found on some bats in summer roosting sites. I did see about a dozen bats hibernating in the brickwork of a drainage tunnel right next to the historic entrance of Howe's Cave so those guys probably had the fungus but likely also survived the initial WNS outbreak in the area.
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