Crowded baby bat clinic a barometer for Australia's bad weather. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 09:20 EDT, 7 January 2011 Torrential rain has brought chaos to Australia, and not just to the humans who live there.
Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre director Trish Wimberley and her carers have helped save 130 orphaned bats on the Gold Coast in past weeks. Ghost Bat from Australia. Grey-headed Flying-fox. Bat-Killing Fungus Spreads West. Researchers have detected the fungus responsible for white-nose syndrome, which decimates bat populations, in Arkansas.
A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, VermontWIKIMEDIA, US FISH AND WILFLIFE SERVICEThe fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease that has already killed millions of bats in the United States, has been detected as far west as Arkansas, reported BBC News. The fungus, Geomyces destructans, was found in two caves in the state, but so far there is no sign of the disease in the bat population. “These are pretty far west occurrences,” Ann Froschauer of the US Fish and Wildlife Service told the BBC. The extremely rare Pied Bat. Homologous Structures. Bat embryos. Hog Nosed Bat. Gif of Bats Illuminated by Lightning.