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Letter: Bad for bats?

Published 15 June 2011

From Gerald Legg, Booth Museum of Natural History

Pity bats and other cave-dwelling animals if sound waves are blasted into caves in order to map them (4 June, p 26). Marine mammals are having a hard time with noise pollution in the oceans, particularly from the military; surely bats will fare little better with bangs in caves.

Brighton, UK

Issue no. 2817 published 18 June 2011

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