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| Armadillos Marching North | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 24 2006, 11:41 PM (64 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Dec 24 2006, 11:41 PM Post #1 |
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Armadillos Marching North to Illinois Dec 23, 9:21 PM (ET) By JIM SUHR MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - For years, Lloyd Nelson laughed off as myth reports that armadillos - those armored, football-sized critters with the big claws and bigger nose - had waddled their way into southern Illinois, the same place folks say they've seen cougars. Folks weren't fibbing about the mountain lions. Nelson knows now they weren't joshing about armadillos, either. Since his run-in with an armadillo that was turning a woman's flower bed into a crater near here three years ago, the Jackson County animal-control chief says he's logged in this county alone 13 sightings of the stubby-legged kin to sloths and anteaters. Most were dead as doornails along roads - the leathery animals with poor vision are no match against highway traffic. "We've had armadillos killed on the road just about every year" since 2003, says Nelson, reflecting what wildlife specialists say is ample evidence that the creatures with the pencil-thin tail are nudging their way northward from their southern U.S. climes. "We've got them in Nebraska; that's as far north as we have any records," said Lynn Robbins, a biology professor at Missouri State University. "They're adapting, filling in so many places." To Robbins, the prehistoric-looking armadillo - Spanish for "little armored thing" - is here to stay. Exactly how many of Texas' official state mammal have made their way into the Midwest remains elusive. But observers say the remarkable advance may have been aided by the region's lack of predators and the abundance of favorable habitat such as forests and river valleys. Milder winters packing less long-standing snow and ice - the bane of armadillos who have little body fat, don't hibernate and rely on their noses to root out beetles, grubs and earthworms - hasn't hurt, either. http://story.news.ask.com//article/20061224/D8M6U8PG0.html |
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| Deleted User | Dec 28 2006, 05:47 AM Post #2 |
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:kitti: :kitti: Hi jezzie: I just finished reading about this subject in the latest "Guiness Book of records." One of the children got the newest version for Christmas. It must be due directly to Global Warming, I would think. Thank you jezzie..........for this thread, it is very interesting. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 4 2007, 12:33 AM Post #3 |
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That must be a fun book to look through. Some of these stories are so tragic. Climate change kills hedgehogs MARTIN WILLIAMS January 03 2007 Climate change is being blamed as hundreds of young hedgehogs in Scotland face an agonising death this winter because they have been born out of season. The milder weather has disrupted breeding patterns and resulted in many baby hedgehogs arriving well into the autumn, placing them at the mercy of the winter weather. Rescue centres around Scotland have been inundated with people bringing them young hedgehogs who appear to be too weak to survive. The problem is that, while many are old enough to be away from their mothers, they are too small to hibernate. It is feared many others who have not been spotted will suffer without help and eventually die. In the wild, young hedgehogs in difficulty tend to hide, making it impossible to monitor them. The long, hot summer has meant many adult hedgehogs had babies in late summer rather than just after spring. They then produced another litter in the autumn. In normal weather conditions, the weakest of the hedgehogs would die from the cold before December. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/77885.html |
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| Deleted User | Jan 4 2007, 04:05 AM Post #4 |
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:kitti: :kitti: Good mornin' jezzie: Yes jezzie, the book is one that you don't want to put down.........it was a gift to one of the kids on Christmas. That is a tragic story of the Hedgehogs but, unless the world clues in........I am afraid we'll be hearing more of these stories. I heard on the Toronto news last evening..........that the odd weather, is causing nature to react as if it were spring. That is not a good thing. ....MC & Gracie |
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