ApocaDocs: Bats and snakes are the latest victims of mass killers in the wild

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Posted Mon Sep 16 2013: from Washington Post:


	Bats and snakes are the latest victims of mass killers in the wild http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1379366886 ...The mass killer of bats under Coleman's microscope, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has a lot in common with Chytridiomycosis, a mass killer of frogs and other amphibians. The culprits resemble a third killer, Ophidiomyces, which kills and disfigures snakes. They are fungi, and they arrived in the United States from overseas with an assist from humans -- through travel and trade. They prefer cold conditions and kill with precision, so efficiently that they're creating a crisis in the wild. The death toll among amphibians, bats and snakes from fungi represents "potential extinction events," said Coleman, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife research biologist...

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