White Nose Syndrome (in bats, not coke-heads….)
The strange disease that had been killing off North American bats, White Nose Syndrome, is actually a fungus, according to Scientific American. Apparently this is some kind of fungus that has come in from Europe, where the bats deal with it just fine. Unfortunately, the North American bats cannot, and it is killing them off in large numbers. I don't know much more about this than the occasional magazine article, and the link above will give better information that I will, but the whole purpose of du jour Brain Know? was originally to show where my writing ideas come from. So, here goes... This White Nose Syndrome…