All the bats are dying?!?
At least 1 million bats in the past three years have been wiped out by a puzzling, widespread disease dubbed “white-nose syndrome” in what preeminent US scientists are calling the most precipitous decline of North American wildlife in human history. If it isn’t slowed or stopped, they believe bats will continue disappearing from the landscape in huge numbers and that entire species could become extinct within a decade. It’s enough to make some wonder: Is the bat in the cave the new canary in the coal mine?
via boston.com
This news bothers me in a way the mass death of the bees and the frogs doesn't. I think it's because a Reading Rainbow episode from 1986 planted a seed of sympathy for bats that still lingers. Damn you Levar Burton for making me care.
