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They lick the area to clean and it then they make a divot and they put their jaw in and they lick and drink and pee. it is completely creamy. who else does that? >> i'll tell you who else. a serial killer does that. however, vampire bats don't kill their victims. they just act like a mammal sized parasite. i've heard you say that the weirdness of bats was scientifically interesting to you. the faces of bats is a case of it. if you take a bat that has a weird animal on its nose. you think that's a strange looking adornment, it turns out a lot of bats have food in their mouth when's they're tryi...

A book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! for many of us, when we think of bats, we think of one thing. rabies. the threat of. virus is often misunderstood. >> it is not very common for americans to get rabies. >> dylan george is a former white house adviser for biological threat defense. >> in any gix year there's anywhere from zero to one to two people might get infected from rabies in bats or potentially from foxes or raccoons or skunks. >> if you got rabies, it was death sentence. without treatment it is 99.99%

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. 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 humans are potentially the bigger threat to bats. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interes...

Using echo location in which they emit sound from their nose and mouth and then listen for the echo that comes back to create a mind ma'am 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? >> it depends on the species. some spend their whole lives pretty much alone. other bats will mate for life. you have some species where there is a male and a harem of females. he gets to mate with all of them but they have their own likings in mind so they'll sometimes cheat with ne...

Without getting sick. >> understanding how bats co-exist with diseases is very critical. they have a very unique relationship with path jens generally. they have a unique biology and it allows them to co-exist in different ways. >> there are various theories about why that is. it might have to do with how long bats have been around. >> bats are an ancient species. they have been on planet earth a long time and that means they've had a long history of being exposed and adapting to viruses in nature. >> another theory involves their body temperatures. >> a lot of people have come up with these a...