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Bats are actually quite fascinating animals. the more you get to know them, the more fascinating they are. the more social creatures you see them become. and some of them are actually really beautiful. but bats do carry the viruses they carry and unfortunately, right now, it is very strange, we've probably got a bat virus that's killing people. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm anderson cooper. when covid-19 first surfaced at the end of 2019, scientists around the world wanted to know where it came from and how this deadly virus ended up in humans. although the answers are not certain, it seems like...

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...

Viruses are happily existing in a wild animal in the middle of a forest. when people encroach on that environment, we're creating opportunity for a bat virus to get into people. ♪ come on! ♪ over here! ♪

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...