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Old 18-11-2010, 04:18 PM
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Traffic noise

Heavy traffic noise may impede aurally hunting animals such as bats from locating their prey.
BBC - Earth News - Traffic noise is 'bad for foraging bats'
Good news for beetles and moths, I suppose but bad for bats and possibly birds and small insectivorous mammals.
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