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Artificial cave built to save bats in US
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September 16, 2012, Sunday
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CONSERVATIONISTS in the US have built an artificial bat cave deep in the Tennessee woods to see if it can be a blueprint for saving bats who are dying by the millions from a fungus spreading across North America.
The US$300,000 project by The Nature Conservancy is believed to be the first manmade hibernating structure for bats in the wild. Unlike natural caves, it will be cleaned annually to keep the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome from reaching lethal levels.
The cave is assembled from prefabricated concrete sections. At 23.7-meter long and 4.8-meter wide, it is about the size of a single-wide mobile home. It has a ceiling that is textured so bats can cling to it.
White-nose syndrome, named for the sugary smudges found on affected bats' snouts, prompts bats to wake from hibernation and die when they fly into the winter landscape in a futile search for food.
The US$300,000 project by The Nature Conservancy is believed to be the first manmade hibernating structure for bats in the wild. Unlike natural caves, it will be cleaned annually to keep the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome from reaching lethal levels.
The cave is assembled from prefabricated concrete sections. At 23.7-meter long and 4.8-meter wide, it is about the size of a single-wide mobile home. It has a ceiling that is textured so bats can cling to it.
White-nose syndrome, named for the sugary smudges found on affected bats' snouts, prompts bats to wake from hibernation and die when they fly into the winter landscape in a futile search for food.
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