A Million Bats Dead from Mysterious Disease

Three years ago, a few hundred bats were found dead in hibernating caves in the (northeastern) state of New York. The event barely registered for some scientists. By the following winter, the death toll had risen to a few thousand bats, sparking concern among some experts. This year, the death toll could near a million, and has set off an alarm among scientists and farmers. The dramatic reduction in the bat population and and its potential extinction could have extensive health, economic and environmental effects. Producer Zulima Palacio has the story. Carol Pearson narrates.

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Pets & Animals

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• hibernation
• extinction
• cave
• bat
• population
• White
• Nose
• Syndrome
• fungus
• disease
• ecosystem
• palacio
• voa
• news

[NoxiNobodi]

poor babies : < I love bats.

[Jenfucius]

Bats are important to help control insect populations.

[happinesson]

poor bats. they are important to the ecosystem.

[thoostorm4]

@NoxiNobodi dontworry there is all kindsof freaks

[lukeveijk]

they r really cute

[behindthewaterfall]

FYI the bat shown at 0:57 does not live in North America - that is a tropical fruit bat, often referred to as a "flying fox". You might want to remove that clip.

[thinkladythink]

Its odd they call this a BIO Crisis, although it is , their is another video on Utube of 1000s dieing in New York, wasn't that were the amtrax scare started? perhaps some one was creating spours of fungus for other uses?seems like I remember a show that said ICE was made from a fungus grown on mop string? we also have had a problem with salmonalla, swine flu, hooping cough,maybe they should be looking at ALL labatories studies to find the brains, schools, and private students old and new,

[hajqbvii]

Good vid. Would like to know what causes, white nose disease.....and can other mammels catch it?....Please follow up on this.....4 stars