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One of the big problems in europe and the u.s. used to be wild rabid dogs. >> ancient medical experts developed a lot of odd ideas about how you would cure rabies. they used to believe that one way to stop rabies from killing you was to take a hair from the tail of the rabid dog and insert it into the bite wound, and this is the origin of the phrase "hair of the dog" which we talk about in the context of hangover treatment. >> then along came louis pasteur in the mid-19th century. he'd been working on a vaccine for years and eventually decided to try it out on a young boy who had been bitten b...

Bats have food in their mouths when they're trying to echo locate and it is hard to shout when you have food in your mouth. so they hum their echo-location. that weird flap actually points echo location sound where they want it to go. >> most bats navigate and hunt for food in the dark using echo location in which they emit sound from their nose or mouth and then listen for the echo that bounces back to create a mind map 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...

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. 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. introducing...stocks by the slice from fidelity now you can trade stocks and etfs... for any amount you choose... instead of buying by the share. an...

So they'll sometimes cheat with nearby males from other colonies. there's a whole soap opera going on with bats when it comes to mating. by the way, bat mothers are excellent mothers. imagine having a baby that weighed a quarter of what you weighed, and then the baby holds on to the mother's nipple with its teeth while she flies around. so like i weigh about 200 pounds. and the equivalent would be if i took a 50-pound weight and put it on my nipple with a jumper cable and just went for a run. it's incredible what these mothers do. >> that's a visual that will be with me for a while, dan. my hu...

2019, that's when the team in wuhan began to investigate the strange new virus. the genetic sequence of the virus was mapped fairly quickly. dr. shi compared it to a database of 500 new coronaviruses previously identified by ecohealth alliances. 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 sample 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. it's a d...