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Tidgy's Dad

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Tibbles, the lighthouse keeper's caton Stephen's island, is often blamed as being the only example of a single animal wiping out an entire species, the flightless Lyall's Thrush, the last flightless perching bird.
It is not true , as actually there were lots of cats that had to be culled.
The extinction by cat, is sadly true, however..
 

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Bats apparently. I was going to wait but it got so quiet
Yes, very quiet tonight.
Yes, bats, somehow oddly appropriate as Kamikaze means Divine wind.
The US army wanted to deploy Mexican three toed bats against the Japanese in WWII.
The idea was to put napalm and a detonator in waistcoats which were worn by hundreds of the bats and then flown over Japanese towns at about dawn, so that as the light changed they would fly up into the eaves and the rafters of the houses and would then detonate burning the wooden and paper towns to the ground.
They tested it in the desert, but the wind changed and the bats that had been dropped on the target little wooden city in the desert flew back to the American HQ and blew it up.
So the bats were never used in combat.
 

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