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They lick the area to clean and it then they make a divot and they put their jaw in and they lick and drink and pee. it is completely creamy. who else does that? >> ill tell you who else. a serial killer does that. however, vampire bats dont kill their victims. they just act like a mammal sized parasite. ive heard you say that the weirdness of bats was scientifically interesting to you. the faces of bats is a case of it. if you take a bat that has a weird animal on its nose. you think thats a st...

A book that youre ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! for many of us, when we think of bats, we think of one thing. rabies. the threat of. virus is often misunderstood. >> it is not very common for americans to get rabies. >> dylan george is a former white house adviser for biological threat defense. >> in any gix year theres anywhere from zero to one to two people might get infected from rabies in bats or potentially from foxes or raccoons...

In fact no north american bats are known to have covid-19. among bat researchers, there is a concern that humans will give covid-19 to bats. >> emerging infectious diseases can go both ways. we do know that some other animals can get covid-19. for instance, the tigers at the bronx zoo. >> for now, most research involving handling of bats across the u.s. has been put on hold because humans are potentially the bigger threat to bats. thats why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalize...

Using echo location in which they emit sound from their nose and mouth and then listen for the echo that comes back to create a mind maam of their surroundings. their often oversize ears also help. some have such sensitive hearing, they can detect the sound of an insect landing on a leaf. are bats social animals? >> it depends on the species. some spend their whole lives pretty much alone. other bats will mate for life. you have some species where there is a male and a harem of females. he gets ...

Without getting sick. >> understanding how bats co-exist with diseases is very critical. they have a very unique relationship with path jens generally. they have a unique biology and it allows them to co-exist in different ways. >> there are various theories about why that is. it might have to do with how long bats have been around. >> bats are an ancient species. they have been on planet earth a long time and that means theyve had a long history of being exposed and adapting to viruses in natur...

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Viruses. >> this p-4 laboratory will majorly be used for research on highly pathogenic diseases for which there are currently no vaccines. >> flash forward to 2019 when the team in wuhan began to investigate the strange new virus. the genetic sequence of the virus was mapped fairly quickly. she compared it to a database of 500 coronaviruses previously identified by ecohealth alliances. there was a max. it became sars kv 2. the virus that calls covid-19. called covid-19 because it emerge in the 2...

>> in an ecosystem, what role do bats have? >> yes. theyre a really critical, key component. for instance, insect eating bats, because they consume so many insects, they play a large role in controlling insect bomb lagss. >> a normal size bat can eat up to 500 to 1,000 mosquitos in an hour that might be carrying diseases like zika or malaria. if youre in an area where there are a lot of bats at night, you should be thankful for those bats. >> exactly. >> and that trags lats into big money for ag...

All the same ecological roles that birds do, only they do it at night. >> bats are unique mammals. though structurally in some ways theyre similar to humans. >> so bats have four limbs. two of them are taxed to the wings. >> two of them are the wings. yes. they have all the same bones. the upper article, the forearms, the wrist bones, and then the bones that support the end of the wing are long finger and hand bones. >> bats living and eating habits vary widely across the 4121 species that exist...

>> it really took better part of eight years of consistent and persistent sampling, testing different populations around until we finally found the missing link we were looking for. >> that link was a bat virus gent genetically connected to sars. >> that was the nail in the coffin. >> the doctor told us bat-borne coronavirus theres cause more outbreaks. we need to find them before they find us. >> that original sars coronavirus in 2003 started in china. it spread to hong kong, taiwan and then th...