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Old 18-08-2008, 09:55 PM
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Re: Fatally snared bat

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Originally Posted by RobinP View Post
It doesn't look snagged to me, maybe it just died and happened to fall on the burdock somehow. Surely a healthy bat would be able to pull itself free from a plant?
Perhaps you have never encountered Burdock?

I have seen several reports of this, also of a Bat snagged on barbed wire. I think bats are fairly casual about touching plants, with their bodies and their wings. Obviously, most of the time it doesn't matter. Except when they encounter Burdock.

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