Healthy bats, when waking from hibernation, form small clusters after emerging from months of slumber.
But when CBS News correspondent Daniel Sieberg went with Biologist Al Hicks to an abandoned underground mine near Kingston, N.Y., it looked like a bat morgue, with many of the fragile mammals already dead, or dying, in our hands.
“This is the biggest threat to bat populations I’ve ever seen, no question about it,” said Hicks, a state wildlife biologist.
Normally, the small brown bats should respond to lights and noise.
But their bodies are so weak, they are too lethargic to move. Their fat stores have been mysteriously depleted.
“If what we see here continues to play out over the winter, we’ll lose most of them,” Hicks said.
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