It is not a fun clip to be Down Under . Australia is currently experiencing an utmost heatwave , with record - bump temperatures reach near 50 ° light speed ( 122 ° F ) in many major cities . These exceptional temperatures are terribly hard on humans and have now be the life of G of fauna too .
On Tuesday , a poston the Alice Spring Community Forum Facebook page described the gruesome discovery of a menage of wild horses dead due to dehydration . The creature were found in Deep Hole , an area 90 kilometre ( 55 mile ) from Alice Springs . This is a water reservoir that has never been dry before , according to the stake .
Some locals drove to Deep Hole to check on the water system level after many weeks of the temperature staying in the mid - forty . There was no water , not even mud . Just the carcasses of untamed horses stretching for about 100 meters ( 330 foot ) .
“ This effect , along with other recent instances of mass animal deaths , admit recent fish deaths in the Riverina , calls the community of interests to enquire what steps are our leaders withdraw to harness the effects of climate change in the future and what steps we all take to prevent the suffering of innocent creature across our area , ” the post written by Rohan Smyth states .
Bats have also been peculiarly hard score by the torrid weather condition . Around4,000 spectacled flee foxesdied in a hebdomad in November from the warmth , and many more have died since . Many bats are literally dropping from tree diagram because they ca n’t withstand an internal temperature high than 40 ° C ( 104 ° F ) live on for several daylight . The debilitation down them or construct them unable to hold on to branches .
The extreme weather has also been partly responsible for the end ofhundreds of thou of fishin New South Wales . An interim written report indicates that an increase in alga blooms and a sudden drop cloth in temperatures led to very low dissolved O level in the water column on two disjoined occasions , which resulted in the deaths of the fish .
The stark effects of planetary warming are not something in the future . They are already here . These utmost temperatures and heat wave are no longer the elision if they materialise every few weeks .
