Are birds related to bats?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

At first glance, you might think bats and birds are close relatives. After all, they both flap their wings and fly! But are they actually close cousins or just coincidental copycats? We asked bird expert Amanda Bender to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s got you in a flap? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help find an answer–we promise we won’t just wing it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Um.
0:06.4	Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Sand and Totten.
0:16.0	Um.
0:17.9	Sometimes, I have trouble sleeping at night.
0:21.5	My brain is all full of ideas and thoughts and feelings, and it takes me a long time to power down and get snoozy.
0:30.7	When that happens, I have some tricks I like to use to distract my brain.
0:35.5	My favorite one is called box buddies. I imagine these
0:40.1	big cardboard boxes that I fill with things that are related to each other in some way.
0:47.6	Like in a box labeled bouncy. I would put a rubber ball, oh, my left foot when I'm fidgety.
0:55.7	Oh, a kangaroo on a pogo stick.
0:58.0	You know, things that are bouncy.
1:00.3	Last night, I was thinking about what would go in a box labeled wings.
1:05.1	Um, I got airplanes.
1:07.2	Oh, that one guy's hairstyle from the 80s band, flock of seagulls.
1:11.1	Um, oh, my favorite appetizer, especially the spicy ones.
1:14.7	Hachah!
1:15.5	Let's see, dragons, birds, bats.
1:19.0	Hang on.
1:20.3	Birds and bats.
1:22.3	They're both animals that use wings to fly.
1:25.8	Does that mean they're related?
1:27.9	Clara wanted to know too.
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