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IMAGE: A researcher about to handle a hibernating Townsend s big-eared bat in an abandoned
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Credit: Kim Raff
BOZEMAN, Montana (January 19, 2021) - A four-year study recently published in
Ecology and Evolution concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to many western North American bats.
Since it was first detected in 2006, white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in eastern and central North America. The spread of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats has reached several western U.S. states, mostly likely through bat-to-bat spread, and is presently threatening western species.