Post by Brian Roebuck on Aug 5, 2010 5:41:33 GMT -5
PISGAH FOREST — Using only her headlamp to illuminate the little brown bat in her hands, Gabrielle Graeter carefully spread open the animal's wings.
As the bat shrieked and chewed at her white gloves, Graeter hunched over the small light box on the table in front of her and methodically looked for any damage to the bat's thin black wings, one sign that it could be infected with white-nose syndrome. It's a disease biologists say could have devastating impacts at multiple ecological levels.PISGAH FOREST — Using only her headlamp to illuminate the little brown bat in her hands, Gabrielle Graeter carefully spread open the animal's wings.
www.citizen-times.com/article/20100805/LIVING/308050032
As the bat shrieked and chewed at her white gloves, Graeter hunched over the small light box on the table in front of her and methodically looked for any damage to the bat's thin black wings, one sign that it could be infected with white-nose syndrome. It's a disease biologists say could have devastating impacts at multiple ecological levels.PISGAH FOREST — Using only her headlamp to illuminate the little brown bat in her hands, Gabrielle Graeter carefully spread open the animal's wings.
www.citizen-times.com/article/20100805/LIVING/308050032