A Tale Of Two Parks And The Bats Within Them

Published: Aug. 5, 2022, 4:10 a.m.

b'Buckle up! Short Wave is going on a road trip every Friday this summer. In this first episode of our series on the research happening in the National Park system, we head to Shenandoah National Park and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Some bats there are faring better than others against white-nose syndrome, a fungus that has killed more than 7 million bats in the last decade. Today \\u2014 what researchers like Jesse De La Cruz think is enabling some bat species to survive.

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