Sentences with phrase «infection during hibernation»

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

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Its huddling, cuddling nature during hibernation would suggest the species is ripe for epidemic infection.

White - nose syndrome fungus can infect an entire bat colony during hibernation, but surviving bats are able to clear the infection after they become active again