Sentences with phrase «killed by bats»

He said he feared someone could be seriously hurt or even killed by bats being used this season.

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The Brazilian authorities attribute the large proportion of children attacked — 18 of the 23 killed were minors — to the fact that youngsters sleep more soundly than adults and are less likely to be disturbed by the bats.

White nose syndrome (WNS), caused by a fungus, has killed as many as 6 million North American bats since winter 2006, sometimes wiping out whole colonies.

Brazilian children are being menaced while they sleep by rabid vampire bats that have killed 23 people and bitten more than 1300 since September.

It is unknown how many bats have died due to wind turbines, but the scientists estimate by 2020, wind turbines will have killed 33,000 to 111,000 annually in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands alone.

A fatal disease that killed over 24, 000 pigs in China last year was caused by a virus that originally came from bats, according to a genetic study pinpointing the virus» origins.

Frick was a lead author of a 2010 study that identified the fungus that is killing the bats by disrupting their winter hibernation, causing them to awaken early and lose body fat before food sources become active.

The campaign is a highlight of the game as it is narrated by a British narrator in the form of a wildlife television show akin to Steve Irwin but only if he told all of the animals on the show to kill each other with nukes and baseball bats.

It's nice to see him getting his kills by beating down zombies with a baseball bat and cutting them into pieces using a chainsaw.

Some interesting twists and fairly well done action scenes (surprising since the film was directed by Louis Morneau, who made the hellish Bats) follow, but what kills this otherwise polished piece of pulp are the painfully unfunny wisecracks delivered by Belushi's character.

The Standoff mode itself just in its raw form was pretty fun, but took a surprising turn for the entertaining when the level designers on the team batted it out of the park by placing all of the environmental hazards around the AIs, to make it so super thrilling to kill them in slow motion.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

The seemingly personal connection the Knight has with Batman could be explained by Quincy's son blaming Bats for what happened to his father, for not doing the «proper thing» and killing the villains.

North American studies of bat deaths and wind turbines have found bats are killed either by being struck by turbine blades or by air pressure changes caused by the turbines that burst blood vessels in their lungs.

the rapid complication of ensuring a stable power supply, a large and for some, no longer affordable increases in energy costs, the creation of severe biological consequences with the wholesale destruction of bats in particular plus severe bird kills which are all still mostly hidden by the wind industry if personal anecdotal information from within the wind industry is correct.

Bird Studies Canada released a report earlier this month that showed an astounding number of bats are being killed by Ontario's wind turbines — in fact, 77 % of the bats killed by wind power projects in Canada, were in Ontario.

The bats being killed by turbines in Ontario include the little brown bat, tri-coloured bat, eastern small footed bat, and northern long - eared bat, all on the endangered species list.

And we know for a certainty that bats are killed by wind turbines,» Jane Wilson, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, said.

Wind turbines are killing bats, including ones on the endangered species list, at nearly double the rate set as acceptable by the Ontario government, the latest monitoring report indicates.

An estimated 42,656 bats were killed by Ontario wind turbines between May 1 and Oct. 31, 2015, including several endangered species, the study said.

Bats are being killed in Ontario at the rate of 18.5 per turbine, resulting in an estimated 42,656 bat fatalities in Ontario between May 1 and October 31, 2015, according to the report released by Bird Studies Canada, a bird conservation organization.

Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of provincial groups opposed to wind farm development, said it is concerned that birds and, significantly, bats are being killed in numbers that were not forecast by either the Ontario government or the wind power developers.

Bird lovers have long criticized the number of birds and bats killed by wind turbines and the proposition of humongous facilities makes conservation groups nervous.

In a paper published Friday in the journal BioScience, University of Colorado biologist Mark Hayes used records of dead bats found beneath wind generators, and statistical analysis, to estimate how many bats were struck and killed by generator propellers each year.

They could reduce by a third the number of bats killed at wind farms.

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Harm down to nature by the destruction of tropical rain forests to grow biofuel crops and to the thousands if not millions of birds and bats killed by Wind Turbines.

The damage the project would do to the area's natural beauty and wildlife, including the inevitable killing of birds and bats by the rotating turbines, would hardly be offset by the facility's job creation.

Using the higher but still underestimated level of mortality published by Smallwood in 2013, by 2030 our wind turbines would be killing over 3 million birds and 5 million bats annually.

100 times more birds and bats are killed by house cats than wind farms.

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«Every year in Spain alone — according to research by the conservation group SEO / Birdlife — between 6 and 18 million birds and bats are killed by wind farms.

A study of bat deaths at a local wind farm by the University of Calgary reported by Science Daily found that the majority of migratory bats in this location were killed because a sudden drop in air pressure near the blades caused injuries to the bats» lungs known as barotrauma.

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Post-operation, the numbers of bat deaths and bird kills far exceed what was expected from the wind turbines, noise complaints are being made more frequently as a result of more powerful turbines, and wind power companies have abused their approvals by removing trees from protected woodlands, for example, or placing turbines on sites not consistent with the approvals.

At least 50,000 bats had been killed by the heat in the state's southeast, said Louise Saunders, president of the Queensland animal welfare group Bat Conservation and Rescue.

Note that if 50 % of the bats were killed solely by barotrauma and barotrauma was a contributing cause of death in 90 % of deaths then it follows that the bats killed by this cause must have to fly quite close to a moving blade to be injured by barotrauma.

In the US, a conservative estimate of bat mortality indicates that at least 4 million bats have been killed by wind turbines since 2012.

More than two - thirds of bats being killed by wind turbines on German ground are migrants on their way between summer and winter -LSB-...]

Germany's «energywende» threatens migratory bats Forschungsverbund, Berlin — February 11, 2015 Numerous bats are killed by German wind turbines.

In 2009, for example, a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 to the family of a pitcher who was struck and killed by a ball struck by an aluminum bat made by defendant Hillerich & Bradsby Co., the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats.

A Chicago Tribune article about the lawsuit noted that a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 in 2009 to the family of a youth league pitcher who was struck and killed by a line drive hit off an aluminum bat.