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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...

Getting sick. >> understanding how bats co-exist with disease is very critical. they have a unique relationship with pathogens generally. they have a unique biology and it allows them to co-exist with pathogens in different ways. >> various theories about why that is and it might have to do with how long bats have been around. >> they have been on planet earth for a long time, and that means they have had a long history of being exposed and adapting to viruses in nature. >> another theory involves their body temperatures. >> a lot of people came up with the arm chair solutions like maybe becau...

That birds do, only they do it at night. >> bats are unique mammals and in some ways are similar to human. >> bats have four limbs. >> two of them are the wings. they have all of the same bones that humans do in the upper arms. and then the bones that support the end of the wing are long finger and hand bones. >> bats living and eating habits vary widely. there are some that roost in trees and others under leaves and some in caves. some bats eat insects. others fruit, fish, frogs. >> some of them are living next to each other. >> one square mile of rain forest like in the brazilian

Varieties. but in the southeastern parts of the united states and in particular in texas there is an abundance of one species. the bat is believed to be home to the single largest colony of bats in the world. >> every year during the spring and the summer there is like 30 million bats in the cave. in the cave in the summer. so many bats the local weather stations use their doppler radar and see the cloud of bats coming out and spreading out to catch insects. it takes hours for them. there are so many of them that basically from where they are sleeping. >> they go the same way each time? >> yes...

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...