A Visit to a Site of the Batpocalypse

[jody]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/white-nose-cave-visit/?pid=523&pageid=41945&viewall=true

ROSENDALE, New York -- Until several years ago, about 100,000 bats hibernated in an abandoned limestone mine outside of town. I visited the site with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's bat biologists on Nov. 8.

White Nose Syndrome, the virulent bat-killing disease first seen in 2006 in upstate New York, reached here in 2008. About 1,500 bats are thought to have survived.

Perhaps that’s inevitable for humans as well?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Survival is an arms race

those 1,500 are very likely the subset of the gene pool which is resistant to White Nose Syndrome.

[Roma]

2. Note to self, stay out of the bat cave for a while.

Robin, bring the car around will ya, I'll be out front.