Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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A fluffy white fungus and a little brown bat. A deafening silence and an uncertain future. In this episode, we explore one of the most devastating wildlife diseases in recent times, white-nose syndrome. Since its debut in North America in 2006, this fungal pathogen has spread across much of the continent, leaving millions of dead bats in its wake. Why is it so deadly? Which bats are at risk? Where did it come from? And most importantly, what can we do about it? We attempt to answer these questions and more about this pernicious pathogen, and we are so delighted to be joined by Dr. Winifred Frick, Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and Associate Research Professor at UC Santa Cruz, who helps us take a closer look at the ecology and impact of this disease on North American bat populations.

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0:42.8	Hi, I'm Dr. Winifred Frick and I started studying White No Syndrome when I was a postdoc
0:48.4	and I had been interested in population ecology and conservation biology of bats,
0:53.2	but had not worked on hybrid and eating bats.
0:56.1	And I got introduced to the topic of White No Syndrome by Dr. Tom Coons,
1:00.4	who was really the godfather of that biology in North America.
1:04.7	He was a professor at Boston University and he invited me to be a postdoc with him.
1:10.4	And I went to visit him in the summer of 2009.
1:14.4	And he had basically been studying little brown bats and in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
1:22.7	for decades really had a whole system of a set of maternity colonies,
1:27.9	which is where females come to raise their pup that he had trained graduate students in,
1:33.3	and also had a field camp with undergraduate students.
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