America’s Most Common Bat Headed for Eastern Extinction

(Wired) By the time today’s toddlers graduate from high school, the most common bat in North America may have vanished altogether from the eastern United States.
Researchers combined historical population trends with mortality counts in Myotis lucifugus colonies struck by White-Nose Syndrome, an extraordinarily virulent bat disease first identified in 2006. According to their models, M. lucifugus, better known as the little brown bat, has a 99 percent chance of vanishing from the east, soon. Continued