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Yale Environment 360: On Jan. 12, 2002, in the Australian state of New South Wales, biologist Justin Welbergen was observing a colony of flying foxes for his Ph.D. research. The temperatures that day on Australia’s subtropical, eastern coast reached record highs, soaring to 42.9 degrees C (109 degrees F) at the weather station closest to Welbergen’s study site -- nearly 8 degrees C higher than the average summer maximum temperature. The flying foxes, or giant fruit bats, normally just doze in the treetops through the......
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Posted by Yale Environment 360: William Laurance on May 2nd, 2011
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