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White-Nose Syndrome Spreads Among Hibernating Cave Bats in Arkansas

courtesy: Pete Pattavina
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A dead tricolored bat discovered in the winter of 2015 inside a Georgia cave is an apparent victim of white-nose syndrome.

A white fungus has killed millions of cave-dwelling bats across the eastern U.S. during the past decade. Now, white-nose syndrome is spreading across the Ozarks. We hear from two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service white-nose syndrome experts about the federal government's response to the bat-killing epidemic, and we hear from an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission mammal expert about the disease's impact in Arkansas.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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