Bats Evolving to Resist White-Nose Syndrome

[Tlaloc]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 101648.htm

[Squirrel Girl]

Yay!

[tncaver]

Yes. Yaaaaaa!

[ohiocaver]

For future generations of cavers: Note that the bats are surviving without intervention by humans...without massive and costly re-location schemes, without humans running cave-to-cave with vaccines, without any help at all from the bureaucracy or well-intentioned but misguided animal lovers. Meantime, those bats with resistance are doing well with less competition for food, easier access to preferable mates, broader availability of hibernating sites and roosts, and in general doing just fine. All without humans who felt a need to "do something."

[tncaver]

It's a shame so many caves have been gated during the process of natural resistance to WNS.

[tempest766]

[rolls eyes and sighs]
A very distant cousin of mine figured this out in the 1800s with finches in the Galapagos islands...

It's called "natural selection" folks, and it's how evolution works!