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Tricolored Bat: Listed as Endangered
Context
US officials have announced recently to list the tricoloured bat as endangered.
About
- A fungal disease that attacks while bats are hibernating has brought the tricolored bat to the brink of extinction.
- Tricolored bats live in 39 states east of the Rocky Mountains, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua.
- But white-nose syndrome— caused by a fungus that develops on cave-dwelling bats during hibernation — is decimating the bat's population in North America at unprecedented rates.
- White-nose syndrome has killed off millions of bats across the continent, wiping out 90% to 100% of colonies in some sites.
About the species:
- The tricolored bat, formerly known as the eastern pipistrelle, is one of the smallest bats in North America.
- Tricolored bats are a hibernating species and have the longest hibernation period of any bat species in their range.
- When not hunkering down for the winter, they may be found in a wide variety of habitats to roost and forage.
- When feeding, these bats can catch insects in the air as often as every 2 seconds and increase their body mass by 25 percent in only half an hour.
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