How Bats Break Science

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Many bats can live a bizarrely long time, and brush off viruses that kill people. How do they do it and what can we learn from them? Zoology Professor Emma Teeling and bat researcher and clinician Matae Ahn fly through the science. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsBats This episode was produced by Flora Lichtman with help from Wendy Zukerman, Joel Werner, R.E. Natowicz, and Michelle Dang, Rose Rimler. Editing by Jorge Just, Annette Heist and Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Carmen Drahl. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Billy Libby, Emma Munger, Darah Hirsch, So Wylie and Bobby Lord. Thanks to everyone we reached out to for this episode including Dr. Vera Gorbunova, Dr. Sharon Swartz, Dr. Gerry Wilkinson, and Dr. Lisa Cooper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wendy, I have a story for you and it is absolutely bad sh**.
0:05.0	And you are Gwanawana here at...
0:07.5	Oh!
0:09.5	I have no idea what you're going to tell me.
0:14.6	A lot is about to happen.
0:17.5	Here with me is award-winning science journalist and host of every little thing, Flora
0:26.6	Lictvin.
0:27.6	Hello, Flora.
0:28.6	Hello.
0:29.9	Well, the team at Science Vestus is diving into topics for next season.
0:33.9	Flora was like, Wendy, turn on your microphone.
0:36.9	I got to tell you something about that.
0:38.8	This can't wait one more minute, Wendy.
0:41.4	I'm here.
0:42.4	Ready to go.
0:44.4	Right off the bat, I want to introduce you to Emma Tealing, bat biologist and full professor
0:48.7	of zoology at University College Dublin, because she does not fly away from a bold statement
0:53.8	on bats.
0:54.8	They are by far the most magnificent of all mammals that have the rarest of all traits.
1:00.0	Emma is going for it.
1:01.6	The most magnificent.
1:02.6	I mean, I did feel I'm very competitive, so I was like, whoa, does she know me?
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