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Your Local Gym Is A Lot Like A Guano-Filled Batcave
"White nose syndrome grows on bats' skin during the winter and irritates them, rousing them from hibernation. Not used to being awake when it is so cold, the bats burn so much energy trying to stay warm that they deplete their fat reserves, and eventually become too weak to fly or catch food."
-Discovery reports on the New York State Department of Health finding that fluconazole, a drug commonly used to cure athlete's foot in humans, is effective in fighting a fungal disease that has killed more than a million bats over the past four years. Now the challenge is to figure out how to apply the anti-fungal medicine to bats' noses. Bats eat mosquitos, so I fucking love bats. I really hope the scientists think of something quick.
And also bats are just generally awesome.
don't even; this 'white nose syndrome' has been torturing me since I first read about it.
Bats & Sharks! Bats & Sharks!
Bats would be one of my favorite animals if rabies didn't love them so much. Poor guys, not their fault, but rabies is terrifying.
I thought Xanax cured white nose syndrome.
Be sure to pace the fluconazole with tequila shots.
True story: I just got a prescription for 20x 500 mg of Xanax for no earthly reason from my doctor to treat an inflamed lung. (Not true: The earthly reason is that he's a fucking idiot.) Anyway maybe I can donate it to a charity for coked up bats?
I love scrip-happy doctors.
We could use some surplus bats up in my hood. Our mosquitos are thirstier than Eric Northman.
Solution: Diflucan in a mosquito-flavored pill pocket.
Ok, fine, I'll do it.
"Heeeeeeeere battybattybattybatty …"
I wish some would come live in the bathouse I lovingly constructed. Instead, they choose to live in my garage and guano the shit out of everything.
maybe you should have built them a garage, selfish prick.
Cap'n you needed to build a bat cave.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3394520264_00e2421191_z.jpg?zz=1
Is your bathhouse made of fiberglass? .. because they don't like it. But why do you want bats in your bathhouse? Do you have some particular fetish?
@garge: I think he said bat-house not bath-house. Although your comment brought back fond memories of my early days of being a lawyer when I was sent to do on site diligence of a chemical company. I found a certificate that said something about keeping animals on site. When I asked why they had animals, the guy responded that they kept rats around to test the hot tub chemicals they manufactured. I instantly imagined the rats lounging around in a Malibu-Barbie sized hot tub with a cocktail and lounge music. Something tells me it wasn't that serene but, like Captain's bathouse of death, you can always pretend it's better than it is….
Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
Hahaha, Tuna, do you mean to suggest that they didn't first bring the rats to the beauty salon to give them platinum fur, and then periodically monitor whether the mini hot tubs were turning their hair green? Because if so, I don't want to know about it!
As long as they're out in your garage, you should throw them a couple tubes of Tinactin, just in case.
Sigh. Intended as suggestion for CaptainFantastic, who has an empty BatHouse.
There must be a spray form of fluconazole; as awesome as they are at eating mosquitoes, bats aren't great at unscrewing those little caps.
somewhere, Jim Lorenz picks up a hockey stick and sighs
asl;kfjasl;fkjasldk; HAH!!!
I'd be interested in a Lorenz-Manu Ginobili bat fighting team. Batman is already taken, but Batmen…?
This is really all I've got on this one.