when the wing is around the face like that, they re using their wings as built-in blanket. he s part of a larger movement that s been taking place for the last three decades in the united states, teaching people why these creatures should be protected, not feared. we re all here for one purpose and for one target and one direction, and that s to help these animals and to help people understand why these animals need our assistance. they re so much like us. they are different looking, different colors, different sizes, different shapes, different importances, different jobs that they do. and i keep going back to, that is really what i think, at the end of the day, makes me love them so much that they are like people. when life gets back to normal, go outside and look up and go and find some bats. re camping s re camping s and you get the biggest spot, and you swam in the river all day in the warm afternoon sun. that s pure gold.
some migrate thousands of miles, and hence the viruses that they carry traffic along those migratory routes. and though some of the pathogens bats play host to can make them sick, like rabies, they also have the unique ability to host and withstand some viruses without getting sick. understanding how bats co-exist with diseases is very critical. bats have a very unique relationship with pathogens generally. they have a unique biology, and it allows them to coexist with pathogens 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 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 sort of armchair solutions.
then they make a little divot with their front teeth, and they put their jaw up against that hole, and they lick and they drink and they bee. it s completely creepy. 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 perfect example of that. if you take a bat that has a weird flap on its nose, you think that s a strange-looking adornment, it turns out a lot of bats have food in their mouths when they re trying to echolocate and it is hard to shout when you have food in your mouth. so they hum that echolocation. that weird flap actually points echolocation sound where they want it to go. most bats navigate and hunt for food in the dark using echolocation in which they emit