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The american museum of natural history. why are bats nocturnal? >> well, the thought is that actually the ancestors of all mammals are probably nocturnal. small mammals scurrying around in the age of dinosaurs. it gave them access to resources others like dinosaurs couldn't use and bats never gave up the lifestyle where the ancestors of the primates gave up the nocturnal lifestyle. >> working at night, helps the bats how? >> if you think about what the animals are that are active in the air during the day it is bitters. by being active at night they fulfill all of the same roles

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...

The official name became sars cov-2. 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. the difference between us and chimps. it means sars cov-2 probably came from bats. >> wuhan is a thousand miles away from the southern subtropical regions where the coronaviruss have the greatest risk of jumping from animals to humans. >> most she had studied were in southern china and wuhan is in central china. when she first found out there was a coronavirus outbreak in wuhan she did ...

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 ...