Bats in the comics and White Nose Syndrome (WNS)

The comic "Mark Trail" ran a bit on White Nose Syndrome (WNS) in bats yesterday. The daily strips are a serial about a wildlife author and his misadventures, but every Sunday is something factual on wildlife.  A good place to get out just a bit of information about this highly destructive malady killing a lot of bats.  You can find the strip here:

http://comicskingdom.com/mark-trail/2015-03-01

I have previously posted links to WNS information, but here are a couple again if you want more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nose_syndrome


https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/


This one, from Bat Conservation international, has a very spiffy map of the spread

http://www.batcon.org/index.php/our-work/regions/usa-canada/address-serious-threats/wns-intro

And at the bottom of this page by Bat Conservation and Management, are some videos of the real deal.  Bats dead and dying from WNS.

http://www.batmanagement.com/Projects/moviemain.html


Finally, if you really want to read into this, the National Speleological Society (NSS) has put up a page compiling a lot of the articles about this.  


http://caves.org/WNS/