Video: How Bats Get High

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Watch bats perform jaw-dropping high-flying acts — like landing upside down on the top of a cave — with topflight bat researcher Sharon Swartz. Come for the astounding bat video, stay for Wendy’s outsized facial reactions. Footage courtesy of Swartz and Breuer labs, Brown University, supported by the NSF. Produced by Flora Lichtman with help from Wendy Zukerman. Fact checking by Carmen Drahl. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music by Bobby Lord and Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I love bats. I love bats.
0:12.4	Yeah, oh wow. It really just looks like a possum flying, doesn't it?
0:16.4	It does. There's little legs dangling.
0:18.7	The big eyes.
0:20.3	It looks a little AI generated. Like rat mates, wings. And that one in particular, very...
0:27.1	I had that same feeling. I guess the question it made me think is like, do I know bats at all?
0:36.8	You've been in a real poetic place right now.
0:40.1	So I looked into it, and bats are so weird in so many ways, including how they get high.
0:46.4	Bats don't fly like anybody else.
0:49.3	Can I tell you more?
0:50.4	I'm so down.
0:51.3	I'm so down.
0:52.4	Our guide today is top flight bat researcher Sharon Swartz.
0:55.6	I'm interested in how animals move. There's nothing as compelling to me in the biological world as animal movement.
1:03.0	And bats can do astounding things in the air. Some bats fly almost 100 miles per hour. Others migrate long distances,
1:13.0	some hover, some hunt.
1:16.4	And then there's acrobatics that only bats can pull off.
1:20.2	Really the superpower of bats
1:22.4	is that most bats are really good at flying
1:24.5	extremely well at low speeds.
1:26.4	Ooh, this is, I've watched enough World War II movies to know how important this is.
1:33.7	Yeah, and for bats, this means they can achieve difficult landings.
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