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Studies within the Bat Cave have shown that there is enough natural circulation to prevent any of the so-called aerosol effect from contaminating the Caverns. It has also been observed that mice, ringtail cats and raccoons frequent the Bat Cave, but so far there have been no cases of rabies in any of the wildlife, other than the bats...
...easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls and bones of long-dead bats. Over this repulsive carpet crawl fierce, flesh-eating dermestid beetles and their larvae-so numerous that the floor seems alive. When a sick or senile bat falls from...
...summer of 1960, Dr. Constantine and his crew moved into one of these noisome spots, the Frio Cave in southern Texas. While rabid bats flew overhead spraying them with urine, they slogged into the cave carrying wire-mesh cages containing dogs, domestic cats, raccoons, ringtail cats (a raccoon-like animal of the Southwest), coyotes, grey foxes and one striped skunk. The animals were fed and tended carefully for one week, then removed and isolated. One fox, two coyotes and one ringtail cat died of rabies...
...those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library upstairs because we were told the second floor would cave...
Died. Abbé Henri Breuil, 84, paleontologist-priest who in the face of disbelieving colleagues proclaimed the paleolithic origin of the famed cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and the Dordogne region of France-a contention that was later borne out by radioactive-carbon dating; near Paris...