According to the Hendersonville Times-News, Biologists in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have confirmed that two bats found in a park cave have white-nose syndrome.
The malady has caused a massive die-off of bats in Eastern states and the fungus that causes it had been found earlier in the Smokies.
Park spokesman Bob Miller on Tuesday issued a statement in which officials said a tricolored bat and a little brown bat had been found to have the disease.
It is called white-nose because of a white fungus that forms on the faces of many infected bats. The actual cause of death from the syndrome isn't known and there is no known cure.Read the full article
The malady has caused a massive die-off of bats in Eastern states and the fungus that causes it had been found earlier in the Smokies.
Park spokesman Bob Miller on Tuesday issued a statement in which officials said a tricolored bat and a little brown bat had been found to have the disease.
It is called white-nose because of a white fungus that forms on the faces of many infected bats. The actual cause of death from the syndrome isn't known and there is no known cure.Read the full article
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