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This week's episode of the Naturalist is all about bats. Bernie Wides, aka The Naturalist, is joined again by friend and author Carol A. Butler who teaches us all about bats and dispels many myths about the nocturnal creature.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Bats (15:09)
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Carol A. Butler, Central Park In The Dark, bats, turtle pond, bat detectors, echo locators, Prospect Park, Barbara French, bat rehabilitator, fruit bats from Kenya, Barbara had a hammock for an old bat, petting bats, vampire bats, Do Bats Drink Blood?, there are 11,000 species of bats in the world, there are only 3 species that are vampire bats, bats recognized recordings of breathing, they drink blood from sleeping animals, vampire bats will bite a sleeping human on the toe not neck, Dracula, microbats,White Nose Syndrome & Bat Mythology (10:16)
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Barbara Schmitz French, White Nose Syndrome, people found bats wandering in the snow, Upstate New York, cold weather fungus, we don't know the cause of White Nose Syndrome in bats, millions of bats have died already, hibernation caves, bats eat lots of insects, they also pollinate, when they eat small fruit the seeds pass through them quickly and germinate, mangos, what's the difference between a false and true vampire bat, vampire bats don't eat animals they only drink blood, mythology, Batman, Bat Boy, Erica Wides, Why We Cook, bat recipes, false bats are carnivorous and eat animals,Bats: Water, Sound & Human Hair Legends (12:39)
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