Australia is so hot that bats are ‘boiling’ to death

SYDNEY – This is the other-side-of-the-world counterpoint to the bizarre sight of frozen iguanas in last week’s deep freeze in the US: Hundreds of bats in Australia are essentially boiling to death in the nation’s extreme heat.
A conservation group near Sydney, where temperatures recently reached 117 degrees, says that more than 400 large bats known as flying foxes were found dead, reports National Geographic. The problem is dehydration, explains one expert on the species. &ld