"Bat fan visits Boston to learn about disease; Population dwindling as result of fungus" by Gal Tziperman Lotan | Globe Correspondent, December 09, 2012
Ann Froschauer, national white-nose syndrome communications leader for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, said she heard about 8-year-old Miriam Parrucci’s love of bats and organized the visit to encourage her interest and maybe help her become a bat biologist, which Miri said she wants to be when she grows up.....
In New England, “we have been living with 90 percent fewer bats in the last three or four years, since 2009,” Alison Robbins, director of a master’s in conservation medicine program at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, said. “It’s a real tragedy.”
For the first time, Miri got to touch a bat.
She held a female cave myotis bat on her flat palm and patted its back with a finger, admiring the bat’s fur and feet.
“I think I’m gonna name her Zombie, because she’s dead,” she said.
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And I really don't like seeing that other word in my paper, sorry.
