World's largest bat hunted nearly to extinction

Barrett808

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:49 PM
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World's largest bat hunted nearly to extinction

Under the current legal hunting rate scientists predict that the world's largest bat, the aptly-named large flying fox or Pteropus vampyrus, faces extinction in six to 81 years. Increasing the urgency to save the large flying fox is the vital role it plays as an ecosystem engineer (a species whose behavior can shape an ecosystem); the species maintains Southeast Asian forests by dispersing a wide variety of seeds over distances farther than most birds and other mammals. ...

http://desdemonadespair.blogspot.com/2009/08/world-largest-bat-hunted-nearly-to.html

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:51 PM
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1. humanity is gonna get what's coming to it based on its behavior towards fellow creatures lol nt

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