Climate change makes bats drop dead


	Climate change makes bats drop dead

wildcat

11-29-2007 7:23 AM

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global warming, bats, ecology, biology, climate change

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11-29-2007 4:02 PM

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We try to make everything broke to afford to live better. We must think of our children in future
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