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White-nose syndrome takes a toll on Texas bats
The deadly disease was first detected in the state in 2020
Since white-nose syndrome was first detected in Texas in 2020, biologists have watched a steady decrease in bat numbers. In some caves, bats have disappeared altogether. At Fort Cavazos, where that first bat with the fatal disease was detected in the state, a colony of 30,000 bats was eliminated.
“We’d lose one after the next, day after day. We just couldn’t turn them around,” Lee Mackenzie, of the Austin Bat Refuge, told Undark.
Header Image: White-nose syndrome has devastated some Texas bat populations. Credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS
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