Australian fire photography

In 2020, just a month ago, various major events happened, which was a disaster for human civilization, but also a setback and tempering from another angle. When the fire in Australia gradually subsided, a large number of bats flooded into Australian cities, covered with trees, and the "quack" sound at night caused people's fear and anxiety.

The fire in Australia began in July, 20 19, and it is a time of frequent mountain fires every year. With the intensification of the greenhouse effect, the trend of global warming is very obvious. According to the statistics of NASA scientists, 20 19 is the second highest average temperature in recent hundreds of years, and the highest is in 2006. Due to the hot and dry weather, forest fires have occurred in most parts of Australia. At the same time, due to the delay in extinguishing the fire, the mountain fire has spread to pieces, but it is too late to rescue it.

The fire burned from September 2065438 to September 2020, and it has not been completely extinguished until today, but it has begun to fade gradually. The area of this mountain fire reached 6 million hectares, and the smoke even drifted to New Zealand 2,000 kilometers away, killing nearly 500 million wild animals. Scientists speculate that the local alpine opossum and frogs endemic to Australia may face extinction.

654381October 30, the British "Daily Mail" reported that after the Australian fire destroyed a large number of forest areas, a large number of wild animals died, but at the same time, some animals were fished out of the fire and poured into the city. They are the only mammals with the ability to fly-bats. Speaking of bats, everyone should be familiar with them. They are rare in cities, but they are abundant in rural and remote areas.

Bat is the general name of Chiroptera, and it is the second largest category of mammals after rodents, including 19 family, 185 genus, 96 1 species. Besides being ugly, bats are also called mobile virus banks. Scientists have found more than 465,438+000 viruses in various bats. You know, at present, there are only 6000 kinds of viruses described by human system, of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Ebola virus, SARS virus and Marburg virus, which bring great trouble to people, all come from bats.

Among the nearly 1000 species of bats, their body shapes are also quite different. It is reported that the bats that have flooded into the urban area of Australia this time are very big, and people say that some bats are as big as pigeons. They hung in groups on the trees and shouted loudly. Understandably, these bats must be very painful and unacceptable for their homes to be burned down. Bats are called mobile virus banks, which is the price they pay for their flying ability. Some people say that bats are evil and will infect us with viruses, but is this really the case?

We should understand that the living areas of humans and bats overlap very little, and it is difficult for them to directly transmit the virus to humans. Generally speaking, eating some wild animals is a "greedy behavior" of human beings, and these animals are probably the intermediate hosts of the virus. Bats should not "carry the pot" for some of our actions.

Text/Du Ruo, image source network invasion and deletion.

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