Killer Fungus Destroying Bats

[owlsie]

First the frogs, then the bees, now bats are being wiped out by a disease as well. Very sad

Comments

[scottbear]

That's...just horrifying.

[owlsie]

Yeah. Wonder if the diseases are connected. Apparently there are similarities. if it is a disease mutating between insects, amphibians, and mammals, wtf else can it do?

[mushroom_maiden]

It also reminds me of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease that is killing the Tasmanian Devils :(

[seahorselove]

I just looked that up thats so sad! and it said they might be extinct by 2035 if no cure is found... EVEN MORE HORRIBLE!

[squid_ink]

poor bats

I saw quite a few last summer in my yard (not in my bathouse, but in our barn). I'm hoping they overwintered safely and are healthy

it's been a bad couple of years for bats in the northeast US

:(

[halfassured]

Yiiiiikes. Hopefully the agent will at least mutate into a less lethal form like syphilis did; that's really bad news.

[scythemantis]

This is a fungus, not a virus or bacteria...a fungus is more complex, like a plant or animal, and doesn't just mutate spontaneously like a disease would :/

[meicdon13]

OMG. From 3,000 to 112 DD: That's just really depressing.

[owlsie]

1 million bats all up :/

[fearful_angel]

I know I should go to hell for saying this, but... white substances on their noses, growing emanciated, change in normal behaviour... Have these bats discovered DRUGS?

Jokes aside... poor bats. *sighs*

[seahorselove]

DAMMIT LINDSY LOHAN STRIKES AGAIN!

[fearful_angel]

*shakes fists at the sky* BATS ARE DYING COZ OF LOHAN! She's the's cause of global warming! And earthquakes and possibly Uranus.

SOMEONE's gotta be blamed for coming up with that name. DAMN YOU LOHAN!