From SciShow Tangents.
Original airdate: April 2, 2019
Bats have a bad reputation because of the ones that drink blood or spread disease, but these furry flying critters can be pretty cute! This week, we’re talking about everything from echolocation to weird potential uses for bat poop.
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[Poem]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141
[Truth or Fail]
Bats that spend time on the ground:
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953
Why fly when you can shuffle? This curious bat prefers the ground
Diurnal bats:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/
https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml
Suction cup bats:
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/
[Fact Off]
Bat & dolphin echolocation:
Dolphins and Porpoises and…Bats? Oh My! Evolution’s Convergence Problem
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511
Moth echolocation blocker:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416
[Ask the Science Couch]
White-nose syndrome:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html
https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z
https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48
[Butt One More Thing]
Bat guano gunpowder:
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dkc09
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