{"id":63280,"date":"2014-01-09T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=63280"},"modified":"2014-01-09T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:35:33","slug":"raining-dead-bats-100000-rotting-carcasses-fall-from-the-sky-and-die-during-blistering-heatwave-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=63280","title":{"rendered":"Raining dead BATS! 100,000 rotting carcasses fall from the sky and die during blistering heatwave in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swarm-of-bats-3001740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63276\" alt=\"swarm-of-bats-3001740\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swarm-of-bats-3001740.jpg\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swarm-of-bats-3001740.jpg 615w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swarm-of-bats-3001740-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swarm-of-bats-3001740-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 100,000 bats have fallen from the sky and died during a blistering heatwave in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures up to 43C are to blame for the mass deaths in at least 25 colonies in southern Queensland, the RSPCA said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The bats have caused havoc in townships with teams of rubbish collectors run off their feet clearing them from trees and bushes.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents say they have had to put up with the stench of rotting carcasses for four days.<\/p>\n<p>At least 16 people have needed anti-viral treatment after being scratched by dying bats.<\/p>\n<p>A Bat Rescue spokesman warned: &#8220;Don&#8217;t touch them, they&#8217;re stressed. If they do break your skin you can get a vaccination.&#8221; He said people should not try to clear them up themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 100,000 bats have fallen from the sky and died during a blistering heatwave in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}