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What species are in there. then what we do is set up nets outside and catch bats as they fly out in the evening and go back in the morning. >> we do everything we can to ensure the safety and well-being of the animals and we have a basic set of samples we collect. oral swabs, fecal pellets, blood. and we take measurements. >> over the course of eight months, they sampled caves all over southern china and then they took all these samples back to the lab. >> it really took the better part of eight years of consistent and persistent sampling, testing, different horseshoe bat populations around un...

Among bat researchers, there is a concern that humans will give covid-19 to bats. >> emerging infectious diseases can go both ways. right? 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 currently humans are potentially the bigger threat to bats. want to sell the best burger in every zip code?

Then they make a little divot with their front teeth, and they put their jaw up against that hole, and they lick and they drink and they bee. it's completely creepy. who else does that? >> i'll tell you who else. a serial killer does that. however, vampire bats don't kill their victims. they just act like a mammal-sized parasite. i've heard you say that the weirdness of bats was scientifically interesting to you. >> the faces of bats is a perfect example of that. if you take a bat that has a weird flap on its nose, you think that's a strange-looking adornment, it turns out a lot of bats have f...

America, over the last decade and a half, bat populations have been plummeting all because of an outbreak they've been fighting of a disease called white nose syndrome. >> it's a cold-loving fungus that grows on the bat when the bats are hibernating in the wintertime. and unfortunately, this has affected something on the order of a dozen different species of north american bats. in some cases, populations have declined over 90%. >> really? that's huge. >> it's huge, yes. it's a terrible threat to bats. and ironically, it's a disease that we brought to bats. the fungus that causes this disease ...

In north america alone there are 46 different species of bats.