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Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals

Posted by timothy on from the what-can-you-see? dept.

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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  1. Happy Thursday from the Golden Girls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you for being a friend
    Traveled down the road and back again
    Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.

    And if you threw a party
    Invited everyone you knew
    You would see the biggest gift would be from me
    And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

    1. Re: Happy Thursday from the Golden Girls! by Chrisq · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Confidant.

      only because the golden girls are too old to have cosmonauts as friends. That would make no sense.

      I don't know Valentina Tereshkova is a golden girl herself now!

  2. Re:Protection from Deer Car accidents by dave420 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Two/three" not "two-three", fyi.