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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wilson Ring

Tiny bats provide 'glimmer of hope' against a fungus that threatened entire species

AP

Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir.

The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went into hibernation last fall. Now in early May, they're waking, detaching from their rock wall roosts and making their first tentative flights in search of the moths, beetles and flying aquatic insects they devour.

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