Al Hicks as standing outside an old mine in the Adirondacks.docVIP

Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why Al Hicks was standing outside an old mine in the Adirondacks, the largest bat hibernaculum, or winter resting place, in New York State. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia David Corcoran, a science editor, explores the topics addressed in this week’s Science Times. It was broad daylight in the middle of winter, and bats flew out of the mine about one a minute. Some had fallen to the ground where they flailed around on the snow like tiny wind-broken umbrellas, using the thumbs at the top joint of their wings to gain their balance. All would be dead by nightfal