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Deadly white-nose syndrome is suspected of causing a 98% reduction in bat numbers in a cave near Zortman used for winter hibernation. Half of the remaining 40 bats showed visible
Youtube is launching a massive campaign today to encourage people to take the vaccine. it's called let's not go back, and it's a joint initiative with the nhs. it will involve stars from youtube's vast community of creators — people who make a living on the platform by generating their own videos, building subscribers, and then taking a cut of advertising revenues — making videos that appeal to younger people. youtuber leena norms is one of 65 youtubers who are part of the campaign — here's a video she made with the nhs — and to be clear, the nhs has not paid herfor this. i'm personall...
Scientists believe covid-19 may have had its roots in a community of horseshoe bats in southeastern china. these particular bats represent a very small subset of horseshoe bats all named for the shape of their noses. there are actually dozens of varieties of horseshoe bats living in a number places, including the temperate and tropical regions of central europe, africa and asia. in fact, there's incredible diversity among bat species. bats can be found living all around the world, on every continent except antarctica. however, the diversity and unique abilities of bats is also what makes them ...
There was a match. its official name became sars cov 2. the virus that calls covid-19. called covid-19 because it emerged in 2019. the new coronavirus was 96.2% similar to a virus taken from a horseshoe bat in 2013. so what does that mean exactly? >> well, 96% is a different virus. so it's a bit like the difference between us and chimpanzees. a different species of virus. but what it tells us, where the virus probably came from. it means that sars covid 2 probably came from bats, and probably in southern china. >> wuhan is 1,000 miles away from the southern subtropical regions of hunan provinc...
Amazon, could have 100 species of bat. >> the smallest bat in the world, it's this tiny thing in thailand that weighs less than a penny. the biggest bat in the world has more than a six-foot wing span. there's a bat that lives in the cloud forests of ecuador that has the longest tongue of any mammal. this thing has a tongue that is 1 1/2 times the length of its body. if you stick your arm straight out in front of you and imagine your tongue could touch your fingers, it's three times that long, so it can get into a flower to pollinate. >> wait a minute. so relative to its body size, if i stick ...