lies within the bat genome.

And the argument would be exactly the same as for the bats.

I'm afraid of bats.

Again, right now bats are looking at a little bit of a problem.

Watch out for bats!

So indeed, bats then do bring us wealth.

Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes,

The three species of microbats that feed on the blood of large mammals or birds (vampire bats) exist in the Americas south of the United States.

Bats are usually synonymous with some type of evil events.

It depends solely on the bat.

Yes, it could be a bat.

And they also found four species of bats in there.

Most microbats feed on insects.

Most bats look like the previous one.

Think of a mouse. But bats are very different.

New forms became bats. Civets.

Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), discovered in 1996, is similar to rabies and is believed to be prevalent in native bat populations.

Vampire bats are believed to be the only species of bats in the world to adopt another young bat if something happens to the bat's mother.

So in my lab, we've been using bats to look at two different types of diseases of the senses.

But most bats are voracious insect predators.

Bats have learned and evolved how to deal with this.

This bat is myotis brandtii. It's the longest living bat.

Vampire bat colony numbers can range in the thousands in roosting sites.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at!

In 2005, a new species of bat was discovered in the cloud forests of Ecuador.

So again, that's the first blessing.

And then we can see things that look very similar, that they have similar structures or they have similar behavior,

Vampire bats also share a strong family bond with members of the colony, which is believed to be why they are the only bats to take up this adoption characteristic.

There are other animals that pollinate, like bats, and bats are in trouble too.

Research in Jamaica has shown that mining for bat guano is directly related to the loss of bat species, associated invertebrates and fungi, and is the greatest threat to bat caves on the island.

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, and its only family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).

Now as I said before, bats are essential for our ecosystems to function correctly.

Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberators, vampire elites, quack revolutionaries.

There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very

The highest occurrence of rabies in vampire bats occurs in the large populations found in South America.

If we look at that region in mammals that don't see so well, such as bats, and we find that bats that don't see so well have the purple type, we know that this is probably what's causing this disease.

Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood.

Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants.

So right now, in my lab, we're combining state of the art bat field biology, going out and catching the long lived bats, with the most up to date, modern molecular technology to understand better what it is that they do to stop aging as we do.

Bats as we know them have been around on this planet for about 64 million years.

On rare occasions, bats have been carried to the island with the winds, but they are not able to breed there.

However, the risk of infection to the human population is less than to livestock exposed to bat bites.

So bats are also important for our health, to enable us to better understand how our genome functions.

We don't run around emitting ultrasonic squeaks, like bats.

So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease.