Wind Turbines Kill Bats by Impersonating Trees

Survival tip: don't hang around machines that have giant spinning blades. It's a lesson bats have been slow to learn, judging by the large numbers of their corpses found beneath wind turbines. New video footage suggests some bats are attracted to wind farms because they can't tell turbines apart from trees. If it's true, this might help us find ways to keep them safer. "I wish we knew for sure" how big a problem wind farms pose to bats, says USGS research biologist Paul Cryan. Other resea