The Devastation of New Brunswick’s Tri-coloured bats
The White Nose Syndrome is a disease that attacks hibernating bats. Bats in hibernation are particularly vulnerable. The disease interrupts the bats’ hibernation process and this, in turn, causes the animals to use up their fat stores more speedily. As a result, the bats starve to death before the winter is over. Although there hasn’t been an official count of bats since 2013, Macalpine opines that the bats are likely extinct in New Brunswick because they haven’t been spotted in hibernation caves since 2013. And now Ajax’s bats are facing a similar fate.