Word: ringtail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
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