Millard County Chronicle | 1939-06-01 | Page 5 | Scientist Declares Bats Actually Dodge Gunfire

scientist declares bats actually dodge gunfire CLEVELAND OHIO why shoot ing bats at night is almost ble why deer are increasing in num bers in ohio and why mammals thrive and perish in cycles are ques eions studied and explained by enlists at the cleveland museum of natural history which houses the world worlds s largest collection of mam mals shooting bats at night is one of the most difficult things on earth to do said B P bole jr mam malowist ma logist at the museum the bat flies in a circle and chases the wad ding fired from the shotgun this precedes the bullet and since the bats are exceedingly fast they ac dually dodge the bullet by diving for the wadding the deer he said is becoming more and more plentiful and some day may become really common it has been determined that mouse epidemics which wipe out almost completely the mouse lations occur every three or four years these are called mammal cy cles the scientist said you might consider them similar to sun spot cycles or business cycles we are trying to trace a relationship be tween these and human illness P