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All named for the shape of their noses. there are dozens of varieties of horseshoe bats living in a number of places. in fact there is incredible diversity among bat species. bats can be found all around the world on every continent expect antarctica. but the diversity and the unique abilities of bats make them tough to contend with when it comes to disease. they are the only mammal capable of actually flying so they can spread to other communities. >> some actually migrate thousands of miles and the viruses they carry travel along those routes. >> some of the pathogens bats play host to can m...

Amazon could have 100 species of bats. >> the smallest bat in the world, this tiny thing in thailand that weighs less than a penny. a bat in the cloud forest of ecuador that has the longest tongue of any mammal. it is one and a half times the length of its body. you stick your arm out in front of you, it is three times that long and so big it can get into a flower topol nate it. >> if my tongue goes to the end of my arm this bat's tongue would go two more arms? >> that's right. >> there are a number of cute bats including the panda bat. and another, the two-nosed bat discovered in 2017 making ...

Covid-19 to bats. > jef emerging infectious di can go both ways. we know other animals can get covid-19 like the tigers at the bronx zoo. >> most research involving handling of bats across the u.s. is on hold because humans are the potentially bigger threat to bats. ever since i got this little guy, i felt like i was just constantly cleaning up his hair. then, i got my paws on the swiffer sweeper. it's a game changer. these heavy duty dry cloths pick up a crazy amount of hair! this is all you. we stopped cleaning and started swiffering. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get e...

Teeth. they lick the area to clean it. they make a little divot with their front teeth and they lick and they drink and they pee. it is completely creepy. >> a serial killer does that. >> vampire bats don't kill their victims but act like a mammal-sized parasite. >> i heard you say the weirdness of bats is interesting to you? >> it is a perfect example of that. take a bat with a weird flap ones it nose and you think that is just a strange looking adornment, a lot of bats have food in their mouths when they echo locate. they hum their echo location and that nose leaf, the weird flap points it w...

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 correct. oral swabs, fecal pellets, blood. and we take measurements. >> over the course of eight months, they sampled caves all over southern china and then took them back to the lab. >> it really took better part of eight years of consistent and persistent sampling, testing different horseshoe bat populations around, until we finally found the missing link we were looking for. >> that link was a bat virus genetically connected to sars. capable of jumping directly from b...