Perhaps the first formal study of transplanting beavers by airplane and parachute appeared slightly more than six decades ago: “Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute,” Elmo W. Heter, Journal of Wildlife Management, vol. 14, no. 2, April 1950, pp. 143-7. The Atlantic did a nice piece about it, as did The Daily Planet. The author, at the Idaho […]
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Medical Reaction to Bats in Flight in an Airplane
Bats can present a medical hazard even while they are in flight — even flying at altitudes far higher than bats normally attain. The Centers for Disease Control explains how and why: “Rabies Risk Assessment of Exposures to a Bat on a Commercial Airliner — United States, August 2011,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), […]
Bat on a plane, Snake in an MRI tube
Reminiscent, in a general way, of the film Snakes on a Plane, here are two recent (or fairly recent) instances of scary (if you find them scary) animals interacting with humans inside a machine. Bat on a plane Bat stows away on Delta flight, CDC fears rabies risk to passengers The CDC [Centers for Disease […]
Copters and whales… now planes and crabs
Dave Brooks at Granite Geek alerts us to low-flying research that echoes, distantly, the Ig Nobel Prize-winning innovation of using a remote-control helicopter to gather whale snot. The University of New Hampshire news service reports: To survey pits dug by horseshoe crabs in the sediments of the Great Bay Estuary, researchers attached a small camera […]