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From: Wharf Rat	3/26/2012 10:21:41 AM
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Climate Change may bring Vampire Bats to Texas http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/26/451448/climate-change-vampire-b... With the emergence of warm spring weather comes the return of the Mexican Freetail bats under Congress Bridge and the remote possibility that a feared and foreign species of bat could make its way into Texas. The increase in global climate temperatures has raised concerns about the vampire bat species travelling from Mexico and South and Central America into the southern and central regions of Texas. Carin Peterson, training and outreach coordinator of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said even if vampire bats are not making their appearance, Austin’s surrounding caves and popular bat attraction, Congress Avenue Bridge, already have their annual bat species. “Biologists are paying attention to the warming climate and what potential impacts that could bring, including non-native wildlife, but this is not something that will likely happen within the next few years,” Peterson said. And things seem to be getting rapidly worse south of the border, droughtwise: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/mexican-drought-fuels-dispair... Mexican Drought Fuels Despair While drought conditions have recently let up across the state of Texas in the United States, a drought of record proportions continues in Mexico. The drought in northern Mexico has led to massive starvation amongst cattle, who have nothing to graze. Normally in these situations, farmers would be able to increase the amount of grain in their cattles' diet; however, the drought has drastically increased the price of grain as well. Across Mexico, farmland is scattered with carcasses of farm animals who have died of starvation

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