Summary
HOW IT WORKS White-nose syndrome The syndrome, named for a white fungus that often appears on the muzzles of affected animals, somehow causes hibernating bats to become active much earlier than normal and use up stored body fat before winter's end, causing them to starve.
After finding suspected evidence of white-nose syndrome in four Pendleton County caves earlier this month, state Division of Natural Resources biologists turned up no signs of the bat-killing illness in surveys last week of three nearby caves.See the full content of this document
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Bat Disease Feared Inevitable
Surveys of caves in Grant and Hardy counties turned up good concentrations of hibernating bats and no evidence of white-nose syndrome, according to DNR wildlife biologist Craig Stihler.
On Wednesday, a DNR survey team visited anot...See the full content of this document
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