Chicken Little shot in the back by unknown assailant, authorities looking for Mr. Peanut

Fish in Maryland, Crabs in the UK, Doves in Italy and then there's the incidents in Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. What next, the plague?

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978883491

Oh, nope.....it's Bat Fungus as well which is far more serious than the routine deaths of small pockets of birds and crabs due to a variety of natural and unnatural (fireworks) causes:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/02/bats-dropping-l.html

The bat fungus is truly sad and a real epidemic. It also has a startling potential impact on food production throughout the world as bats are as important as bees as pollinators of fruit trees and other human crops.