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I'm your host of Mini Parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we are talking about murderous bats and the bats who love them.

From scary Dracula's who have a soft side to bats who are the scourge of the water, these bats have unusual victims.

Joining me today to discuss some spooky, spunky bats as actor, comedian.

She's been in shows like Abby's Hacks, Abbott Elementary, Lucifer, and after midnight,

it's Kimia Biportia. Welcome.

Wow, when you said bats, you left out the murderous part when you teed up what we be chatting about.

And we're talking about, we're talking about bad boy bats. Like these are the bad boys of the bat world.

There's many, many species of bats, hundreds of species of bats. And a lot of them are real

cute, where they just kind of like sip nectar, eat fruit, eat bugs.

These guys are a little more hardcore.

I thought it's sort of Halloween speeson.

It's spooky spezen.

And so we got to talk about some spooky bats who actually are,

while not dangerous to people

They are they are dangerous to some

Animals and perhaps fit the spooky theme a little more than like say an adorable fruit bat

That's fair but I feel like you tell me, because you'll know, what is the bat that we're

like hanging all over our homes on these decorations?

The like plainest looking bat.

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