Sorry to hear that Doctor Dale is not feeling "Up To Snuff". There is some new disease affecting bats. Hope the Doc hasn't been exposed to it. Get to feeling better soon!
In March, officials at the New York Department of Environmental Conservation determined that as many as 11,000 bats had died from the disease, dubbed "white nose syndrome" because of a flaky white fungus on the nose of many of the sick and dead bats.
Scientists do not yet know if the fungus is a cause of the illness or an effect. Some of the sick bats behaved oddly, clustering near the entrance of New York caves, flying in winter when they should have been sleeping and crashing into snow banks.
