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Tube-nosed bat, discovered in 2017 which made news for its resemblance to the former hairstyle of 'n sync's lance bass. >> there's the honduran white bat which looks like a cotton ball. you have your flying foxes that look like puppies but then you have some really ugly bats like wrinkle face bats. i like the ugly bats more than the cute bats. >> a bat that only a mother and dan riskin can love. >> blood feeding bats, or vampire bats do exist. but they're only about .2% of all bat species. they live in central and south america and prey on the blood of birds, pigs and cattle. >> vampire bats a...

There are actually dozens of varieties of horseshoe bats living in a number places, including the temperate and tropical regions of central europe, africa and asia. in fact there's incredible variety among bat species. they can be found all around the world and every continent except antarctica. however, the diversity and unique abilities of bats is also what makes them tough to contend with when it comes to disease. they're the only mammal capable of actually flying, so they can easily fly and spread viruses to other animals in other communities. >> some migrate thousands of miles, and hence ...

Are 46 different species of bats. most of which are small insect eating varieties like the big brown bat and the little brown bat. in the south eastern parts of the united states, in particular, texas, there's an abundance of one species. the mexican free tail bat. that bracken cave outside san antonio is believed to be home to the single largest colony of bats in the world. >> every year during the spring and summer, i think there are something like 30 million bats in the cave. >> in the cave? >> in the cave. there are so many bats that the local weather stations use their doppler radar. they...

Amazon, would have 100 species of bat. >> the smallest bat in the world, it is this tiny thing that thailand that weighs less than a penny. the biggest bat in the world has more than a six-foot wing span. there is a bat that lives in the cloud forests of ecuador that has the longest tongue of any mammal. it has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of its body. if you stick your arm straight out in front of and you imagine your tongue could touch your fingers, it is three times that long so it can get into a flower to pollinate. >> so relative to its body size, if i stick my arm out...

In north america alone there