http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/06/white-nose-syndrome-threatens-northeast-bats-with-extinction/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/06/white-nose-syndrome-threatens-northeast-bats-with-extinction/#comment-21136 fatkid Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:58:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=18615#comment-21136 Talk about canaries in a coal mine! Populations that took millions of years to develop, surviving countless cataclysms, are going from sustainable to extinct before our eyes and at our hands. It's as if that song about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees- has become a dirge. Talk about canaries in a coal mine! Populations that took millions of years to develop, surviving countless cataclysms, are going from sustainable to extinct before our eyes and at our hands. It’s as if that song about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees- has become a dirge.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/06/white-nose-syndrome-threatens-northeast-bats-with-extinction/#comment-21135 Brian Too Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:14:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=18615#comment-21135 Let's hope the little critters evolve some fungal resistance. They seem to be getting hammered right now. Let’s hope the little critters evolve some fungal resistance. They seem to be getting hammered right now.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/06/white-nose-syndrome-threatens-northeast-bats-with-extinction/#comment-21134 Caledonian Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:27:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=18615#comment-21134 That's a very hopeful position, actually - I've heard talk of the extinction event being continent-wide. Extinction in the Northeast alone would be far preferable. That’s a very hopeful position, actually – I’ve heard talk of the extinction event being continent-wide. Extinction in the Northeast alone would be far preferable.

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