Tagged: disease

Environment
2:48 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

Man-made Cave to Offer Bats Haven from Disease

Credit Daniel Potter/ WPLN
The cave's construction underway in late August: an entrance for humans is visible on the right, while bats enter the chimney-like structure.

New tenants wanted: must be quiet during the day, must enjoy bugs. It might not sound like your kind of real estate, but then, you’re not a bat.

A new man-made cave near Clarksville is being built to give thousands of bats a safe haven from a devastating infection called white-nose syndrome; the experimental project may house bats’ best hope against the disease.

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