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darwinsdog on December 19, 2008 - 5:49pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I have a Troybilt "Super Tomahawk" wood chipper. I'd like to perform the experiment of running some roadkill thru it, to see how well it handles flesh & bone, but I'm afraid it would make quite a mess. I hate to try it with my own machine. Maybe I could rent one & try it. Wonder what the rental people would think when I returned it all gummed up with grease & blood..

What are all those birds & bats occupying abandoned skyscrapers supposed to eat, Bob? They can't all be carrion eating cathartids.

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WNC Observer on December 19, 2008 - 5:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Watch the ending of "Fargo"

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Dryki on December 19, 2008 - 6:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I learned during a composting workshop that chipper shredders are the recommended method for dealing with all the chickens to kill in case of a bird flu outbreak. You'd probably want to through in some wood during the process to balance C-N ratios for composting.

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totoneila on December 19, 2008 - 6:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hopefully we will have the wisdom to let our fishstock regrow so the seabirds can use this as the guano-generating source like the seabirds did for so long in Nauru and other offshore islands. With pesticide and herbicides outlawed [or Unobtainium]: there should be gazillions of bugs for bats. Let's hope these species don't go extinct, or is that too far-fetched?

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darwinsdog on December 19, 2008 - 7:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I sure hope that all bats don't go extinct. I think that the larger, non-echolocating fruit bats will bite it but I'm hoping that at least some tropical clades of microchiropterans make it thru the anthropogenic mass extinction pulse. I often say that the Cenozoic is depauperate and biotically "boring" compared to the Mesozoic, but there are some wonderful exceptions to this trend and the bats are one of them, along with colubrid snakes, hummingbirds, and the great teleost radiation. On the other hand, most avialean clades & all pterosaurs went extinct at the end-Cretaceous and this extinction pulse will be at least that big. I hope that bats make it thru but wouldn't want to bet on it.

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TrueKaiser on December 20, 2008 - 1:40am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

i think bats will make it. arn't the majority of mammal species either bat's or rats?

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rainsong on December 20, 2008 - 9:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The cockroaches will survive in spite of all types of pesticides to try to eliminate them.

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