Cempaka Nature, Agriculture and Environment: Bat Uses Carnivorous Plant for Cave in Borneo

"The Greater Akashic System" – July 15, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) (Subjects: Lightworkers, Intent, To meet God, Past lives, Universe/Galaxy, Earth, Pleiadians, Souls Reincarnate, Invention: Measure Quantum state in 3D, Recalibrates, Multi-Dimensional/Divine, Akashic System to change to new system, Before religion changed the system, DNA, Old system react to Karma, New system react to intent now for next life, Animals (around humans) reincarnate again, This Animal want to come back to the same human, Akashic Inheritance, Reincarnate as Family, Other Planets, Global Unity … etc.)

Kryon Q&A

Question: Dear Kryon: I live in Spain. I am sorry if I will ask you a question you might have already answered, but the translations of your books are very slow and I might not have gathered all information you have already given. I am quite concerned about abandoned animals. It seems that many people buy animals for their children and as soon as they grow, they set them out somewhere. Recently I had the occasion to see a small kitten in the middle of the street. I did not immediately react, since I could have stopped and taken it, without getting out of the car. So, I went on and at the first occasion I could turn, I went back to see if I could take the kitten, but it was to late, somebody had already killed it. This happened some month ago, but I still feel very sorry for that kitten. I just would like to know, what kind of entity are these animals and how does this fit in our world. Are these entities which choose this kind of life, like we do choose our kind of Human life? I see so many abandoned animals and every time I see one, my heart aches... I would like to know more about them.

Answer: Dear one, indeed the answer has been given, but let us give it again so you all understand. Animals are here on earth for three (3) reasons.

(1) The balance of biological life. . . the circle of energy that is needed for you to exist in what you call "nature."

(2) To be harvested. Yes, it's true. Many exist for your sustenance, and this is appropriate. It is a harmony between Human and animal, and always has. Remember the buffalo that willingly came into the indigenous tribes to be sacrificed when called? These are stories that you should examine again. The inappropriateness of today's culture is how these precious creatures are treated. Did you know that if there was an honoring ceremony at their death, they would nourish you better? Did you know that there is ceremony that could benefit all of humanity in this way. Perhaps it's time you saw it.

(3) To be loved and to love. For many cultures, animals serve as surrogate children, loved and taken care of. It gives Humans a chance to show compassion when they need it, and to have unconditional love when they need it. This is extremely important to many, and provides balance and centering for many.

Do animals know all this? At a basic level, they do. Not in the way you "know," but in a cellular awareness they understand that they are here in service to planet earth. If you honor them in all three instances, then balance will be the result. Your feelings about their treatment is important. Temper your reactions with the spiritual logic of their appropriateness and their service to humanity. Honor them in all three cases.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Bat Uses Carnivorous Plant for Cave in Borneo

Jakarta Globe, Elaine Lies | January 27, 2011

Hardwicke’s woolly bats have been found nesting during the day
in pitcher plants in Borneo. It’s a symbiotic partnership with the plant
providing a hangar for the winged mammal, which reciprocates by leaving
droppings containing vital nitrogren for its predatory landlord. (Reuters Photo)

Tokyo. Tiny bats, no bigger than a car key, have been discovered roosting in carnivorous pitcher plants in Borneo — with their droppings a vital nutrient for the plants.

“It’s totally unexpected,” said Ulmar Grafe, an associate professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam who led the study.

“There’s a lot of animal-plant mutualisms, but this one is where the animal gives a nutrient to a plant. Usually it’s the other way around.”

The study, published in Biology Letters, began by looking at how the pitcher plant — a vine growing up to 6-10 meters long with 25 cm pitchers — got the nitrogen it needed in the nutrient-poor peat swamps and heath forest on the island of Borneo.

Grafe’s team was surprised to find that the roughly four gram Hardwicke’s woolly bat (Kerivoula hardwickii) consistently chose the pitchers to sleep in during the day, despite a wealth of other possible roosts in the nearby forest.

Not only single bats but male and female pairs, and mother-juvenile pairs, can fit inside comfortably.

At night, they fly out to hunt insects.

“The pitcher is a very nice roost for them,” Grafe said.

“It’s dry in there and there’s no buildup of blood-sucking ectoparasites that often accumulate in other cavities.”

Theoretically, there is some danger to the bat should it fall into the digestive fluid at the bottom of the pitcher.

But the plant has adaptations to prevent this, including an unusually low amount of fluid and a tapering pitcher.

Instead of getting nitrogen by consuming the bats, the plants get it from their feces.

“There’s no reason why the bat couldn’t fly outside.

But they probably defecate in there because they usually do that when they roost,” Grafe said.

The find is an example of why diversity matters, he added, noting that much of the forest in Borneo is under threat.

“There’s so much extinction of animals and reduction of populations and removal that this again highlights how important it is to save every individual, every creature out there.”

Reuters