Howler monkeys now fall dead from trees in Mexico, with at least one hundred and thirty-eight found in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco in the past two weeks, five others rushed to a local veterinarian to save them from perishing.
Bats fall down from trees as well, with Queensland in Australia providing a good example of such an occurrence, as 23,000 bats in 2019 around Cairns plunged down, one third of Australia's spectacled flying foxes affected.
Birds belong to the group of animals falling down from trees, with Marble Bar in Australia providing the spectacle a few months ago, when many birds fell out of trees to the streets.
Other animals apart from howler monkeys, bats, and birds fall down dead from trees, including squirrels, experts blaming climate change for the situation.
When howler monkeys fell down from trees in Mexico, brutal heat wave took the blame for their deaths, as around one-third of the country saw highs of 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) during the period, with Ciudad Victoria in the border state of Tamaulipas clocking a broiling 47 C (117 F).
When bats fell down dead from trees in Queensland, the northern coast of Australia experienced a record-setting heat wave that nudged temperatures 107 F for days on end, with bats, reptiles, and other creatures the victims.
When birds fell down dead from trees in Marble Bar some months ago, temperatures had stayed above 36 C since September 9 and 43 C since December 19 last year, peaking at 45 C in January, extreme heat recorded in Australia’s 6,500 kilometers western region for four weeks.
Other factors could be responsible for animals to fall out of trees - such as poisoning, diseases, and wildfires - but the changing climate ranks high among the reasons, especially through heat waves.
Due to the heat wave in north India’s Kashmir, the wildlife department received 19 rescue calls for snakes, compared to one before in 2022, when summer emerged early, promoting calls.
Due to heat waves in the Niger Republic, when temperatures soared to a sweltering 47 C (116 F), cattle, goats, and other livestocks’ mortality rates rose through dehydration and heat stress, leading to a decline in their overall health and productivity.
Due to heat waves among birds, experts estimated that North America’s breeding adults declined by 30 percent since 1970, a loss of nearly three billion birds, while other researchers said 29 percent of adult birds perished during the two months of heat wave in 2018 compared with only six percent in the two months prior to the occurrence.
Due to the heat wave in Colombia, sea turtles became almost entirely female from warming sand temperatures, the finding coming from a study with a total of 11,299 temperature measurements.
The experiences from Kashmir, Niger Republic, and Australia show that animals generally suffer under terrifying events like heat waves, and they do not have to fall from trees before the point is made.
The Indian capital of New Delhi recorded its second hottest month in 72 years in 2022, and since this mirrors the situation in the entire country, the condition must have led to the establishment of a wildlife SOS, which took action in relation to the rescue calls for snakes.
The Nigerien capital city of Niamey recorded extreme heat above 40 C, in a once in 200-year occurrence, the condition must have led to calls for government to take action in relation to animals as well as offer guidance on how to prevent the overheating of animals.
The Choco areas of Colombia experienced much heat, turning the sea turtles into females, a condition that led into investigations of ways to control the sand temperature of turtle nets for the hatchlings of a more even sex ratio.
Nations need to establish wildlife SOS, take action in relation to animals, and conduct investigations into ways to control temperature to cope with creatures falling from trees through climate change.
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Thank you for always reminding readers that humans are not the only ones affected by intense heat waves and other climate episodes. Here are two papers that might help jurisdictions trying to track and prevent such mortality. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/09/why-the-world-needs-biodiversity-early-warning-systems/ and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.12339