{"id":35375,"date":"2014-03-25T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=35375"},"modified":"2014-03-25T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:49:14","slug":"with-bats-disappearing-researchers-listen-for-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/03\/25\/with-bats-disappearing-researchers-listen-for-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"With Bats Disappearing, Researchers Listen for a Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35393\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Mexican Free Tail bats leave the Ann Richards Bridge on their nightly hunt. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/03\/bats-on-bridge-SUPER-NARROW.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35393\" alt=\"Mexican Free Tail bats leave the Ann Richards Bridge on their nightly hunt. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/03\/bats-on-bridge-SUPER-NARROW-620x290.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/03\/bats-on-bridge-SUPER-NARROW-620x290.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/03\/bats-on-bridge-SUPER-NARROW-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/03\/bats-on-bridge-SUPER-NARROW.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Mose Buchele<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican Free Tail bats leave the Ann Richards Bridge on their nightly hunt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ann Richards Bridge in downtown Austin is home to the largest urban bat colony in North America. But it&#8217;s just one of many Texas bat colonies. In other parts of the country, bats have been decimated by a disease called \u201cWhite Nose Syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bats in Texas appear untouched by the disease so far, but it is heading in this direction. Now, researchers think they have a powerful tool to track the spread of the disease. It all has to do with that little chirping you hear when you you see a bat in the air. Take a listen to the story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/141267038&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ann Richards Bridge in downtown Austin is home to the largest urban bat colony in North America. But it&#8217;s just one of many Texas bat colonies. In other parts of the country, bats have been decimated by a disease called \u201cWhite Nose Syndrome.&#8221; The bats in Texas appear untouched by the disease so far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35394,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375\/revisions\/35394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}