Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals

Rambo Tribble writes "Ultraviolet light flashes, or "corona", may be scaring animals and altering behavior. An international scientific team, first studying behavioral anomalies in reindeer near power lines, have found that sporadic flashes of UV from the lines are probably responsible. As most mammals can see into the UV spectrum, this has broad implications for the disruption of animal behavior. From the BBC article: "Since, as the researchers added, coronas 'happen on all power lines everywhere,' the avoidance of the flashes could be having a global impact on wildlife.""

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[MouseTheLuckyDog]

Just another excuse for wacko liberals to demand we abandon civilization and go back to our caves.
All of course except for the wacko liberals who get Lear jets and free fuel to go around telling us all that we should go back to our caves.