There’s so much more to talk about here! Definitely feel free to sound off in the comments about your love for bats and head to the description for a PILE of links to fascinating studies and articles that offer a deeper dive on some of the specifics. The jury is still out on whether bats carry more diseases than other mammals or if there are just many species of bats. There are around 1,400 types of bats in the world - that’s about 20% of ALL mammalian diversity. A paper published in 2021 found that the amount of viruses that bats carry is proportional to the diverse range of species: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909788/. Thanks for watching! -Kim

@DavidLimofLimReport

6 ай бұрын

Coming up next on Vox: why bats could be the next masters of the earth in 1 million years.

@Brutus7350

6 ай бұрын

why are you so ideological?

@ak9989

5 ай бұрын

TO THE SNOOTY TRIM YOUR BUSHY EYEBROWS NITWIT 112 FAHRENHEIT!!

@TheCambias

5 ай бұрын

I’m in love with Ms Kim first time seeing her hellooooooooooo Kim ❤

Bats have also been a long-time worry for pandemics because they can have millions of mammals living in close proximity, you know, like humans.

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

6 ай бұрын

​@@Daydreamerr13 Chinese people did. Not them.

@ScienceNerd1.1

6 ай бұрын

Humanity did by destroying their environment causing unnecessary contact with them …

@LuSquared_

6 ай бұрын

And bats sadly refuse to wear maks and social distance

@LPSWeirdCow13

6 ай бұрын

​@@Sigma_Male_Anti_FemalePeople in China*

@aircraftsupport5800

6 ай бұрын

@@LPSWeirdCow13 Approximately the same thing

without bats, the insect population would be out of control.

@eugeneslim9108

5 ай бұрын

are they the more weighty factor than birds?

@iansteelmatheson

5 ай бұрын

@@eugeneslim9108 probably depends on the region. also, they tend to operate at different times of day, so their prey is pretty different.

Bats are endangered in many places even though they are extremely valuable because of habitat loss and disruption of thei ecosystem

@cliq379

6 ай бұрын

The way you phrased it, it sounds like they are valuable because they disrupt ecosystems and cause habitat loss.

@MrrrAdryan

2 ай бұрын

​@@cliq379Lol

So there are very good reasons for admiring those weird creatures.

So my understanding of bats is now that they are the best in everything

So interesting! Bats are really survivors! Our crew got on camera a bat that lives literally inside a carnivorous plant, and it's all good! So fascinating

@brandonclark8395

5 ай бұрын

Cool

What about the mere fact of raising their temperature to 44 C when flying? Wouldn't that eliminate a lot of virus load by itself?

@anhbindo

5 ай бұрын

I think so , even if the virus still alive its only choice now would be remain in dormant state and waiting for the environment becomes better ( probably during times when the bat hibernate maybe? )

Eagles love bats but we need to test their immune system and see how they can fight off bat disease.

@rudolf895

6 ай бұрын

Stomach full of acid. No thanks

@aishwaryadavid7565

6 ай бұрын

I think that could be due to the fact that eagles are not mammals unlike bats. The same reason why humans and other mammals can easily get diseases from bats like rabies, ebola etc

No wonder Batman never takes a sick leave to stop crime.

3:02 Vampires and Bats now make a lot of sense together

I hate how the media portrays bats as some kind of flesh eating monster, I mean, these ain’t nothing but some Bird puppies

I tend to think of the bats around my house as friendly because they eat the pesky (also dangerous) mosquitos .

Vox: How bats carry deadly diseases without dying? Viruses: we can't 'stand' hanging upside down!

@BabyKobeeee

6 ай бұрын

Dad? Is that you?

@savagepro9060

6 ай бұрын

@@BabyKobeeee Yep! I'm with your mom, we were trying the Bat Position. Put the lights back off, get out, and close the door!

Human: "You're so lucky you don't have to worry about diseases, bat. " Bat: "Have you seen my morning workout bro?"

I genuinely enjoyed this video. Thank you Kim, and everyone else involved in this episode. Much respect to you all ❤.

Bats: "Their entire existence as a flying mammal is an extreme stressor." And humans' existence as a mamma; is also an extreme stressor.

Why did, "bats are the only flying mammals" blow my mind 😅 Enjoyed this one!

@Mercenaryow

5 ай бұрын

This sidenote hit me more than the story itself 😂😂😂

@kayosensei

3 ай бұрын

Its to dramatic to me

@elliecandle773

3 ай бұрын

Aren’t birds mammals though?

@David-bh1rn

3 ай бұрын

​@@elliecandle773they lay eggs. Mammals give birth to live young.

Wow, never knew that bat can live up to 30 years 🤯🤯

There was a disease in Canada a year or two back wiping out bats in the east and moving westward. I havent heard about it since, but I hope they figured it out and managed to save these little guys.

@mauricemusician7636

5 ай бұрын

Cave fungus. Bats are going through a Last of Us crisis.

I watch so much VOX ever since I found out when I was in middle school. Around like 13 now I’m 18 this is definitely my childhood haha. I really hope one day I get to be featured in some type microbiology video when I’m older :)

Batman is NOT a vampire while Morbius is a vampire. Morbius is a Doctor while Batman NEVER even a doctor. There you go, there is the differences.

Getting plenty of exercise could help you to live longer and avoid infectious diseases. Seems reasonable.

Chapeau. Most informative. One of the best for some time.

This is a fantastic and informative take, love it. Thank you for the work you do!

I’ve wondered about this since that Ebola outbreak about a decade ago… great video

Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea. Thanks for that, Kim.

Nice video, I seem to recall a SciShow video about this topic a few years ago but yours took some different and interesting angles.

Fantastic piece! Satisfies some questions I've always had on bats!

Researcher: Bat physiology is resistant to aging. Me: Dracula is based on facts?

the videos from this channel are always outstanding

they need to start showing these vids in schools

Loving this new initiative of vox

@martismarty1566

6 ай бұрын

💖

"Deep within the heart of every bat lies a raging fire, ready to consume and destroy the entire city if provoked." -Batman

@ZIN74FF

6 ай бұрын

Y'know why batman never covered his mouth? yeah, he was foreshadowing upcoming disasters as well as flexing his immunity.

@Ou8y2k2

6 ай бұрын

@@ZIN74FF He was spreading COVID due to his alliance with the Joker.

I feel like there are 2 things not explained at all 1- what dos the metabolic output of flight have to do with response to a virus ( there are all kinds of stressors animals have why is flight so similar to a viral infection ) ? 2- How do bats blunt the effects of the body's response to infection without that also making the response ineffective in the first place ?

@north6502

6 ай бұрын

I bet it has to do with their body temperature during flight, 44 is very high for a human fever, but in a bat it’d be normal

@mikeyjhilli

6 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@woltews

6 ай бұрын

@@north6502 looked up what it was for a squirrel and it seems to average around 40C depending on a bunch of factors so within 4 of the bat , also the bat spends most of its time not flying

Great work 👌

I mean there's a superhero called batman for a reason, they're literally built different

@mikeyjhilli

6 ай бұрын

Kirk Langstrom aka Man-Bat has entered the chat.

I've never thought of tequila as a fluffy flying mammal with lots to offer, but...valid.

absolutely fascinating

Bats can resist ageing. They are actual vampires.

Ive been asking myself this question for the longest time

It’s absolutely right to say there is so much to cover in this, the reality is we still just don’t know what allows bats to be so tolerant carriers. One thing for sure is that it’s a multitude of things not mentioned here

Bats are the number one predator of night-time flying insects, like mosquitoes!

Pretty interesting video. Can you find other mammals that have adapted to such different evolutionary pressures and have long life features? The background sound tracks are, sorry, but very distracting in my opinion and also don't theme well.

2:56 is there something wrong with the X axis here? I find it hard to believe that there are mammals that weigh under 2 g. I mean I had a hamster, and I kept track of her weight, and she was between 120 and 130 g, she was nowhere near the size of a fruit bat.

@1992miguel1992

6 ай бұрын

Nice catch. In the mentioned research paper, it is actually log body mass in grams, which makes sense.

MORE BAT CONTENT PLEASE

This has been a burning question of mine forevwr

Vox is great 🥰

2:48 So they are true vampires 🧛‍♂️

I've wondered about this before.

I want to be able to turn into bats.

The graph at 2:55 probably shows body mass as hundreds of grams, instead of just grams, those rodents would have to be absolutely tiny.

The aging thing explains vampires to me😂

Bats: not our fault your immune systems are so weak.

that’s why batman so strong, without daddy money

Great content. More science! Wr all benefit from knowledge.

@ 3:03 Wow, so it is true that vampire is the longest-living mammals

Another way of looking at this topic is, a virus that can surive a bat body temp cannot be harmed by human fever (one of the main purposes of fever is to do that). So our response is not nearly as affective, making those viruses dangerous than one that came from another mamal.

First time I heard someone using centigrade term, I'm not from English speaking country btw

Nice to meet your older sister!

Pretty interesting question

Oh yeah, just the video I need

We just covered this topic in my virology master!

Kim Mas: Who are you? Cara Brook: I'm you but from the future. 👁👄👁

Bob Kane knew this!!!

Coz their build different

thank you

that is fantastic material, you can do the same and show to public how the immune escape works in sars cov19 in humans and how they been used as a bio weapon carriers

Interesting video. I love bats, they are so cool, just ask Batman !

Excellent video! Bats are such incredible creatures, and by the looks of it we made them sick to begin with, so we only have ourselves to blame. ❤ 🦇

I would use it as a beginner, to continue my jurney i started during this latest free flight

The title was meant to be "How Batman delivers decisive justice without dying?" 🦇🏏

Now we know why Superman got sick.

Very nice video

They started tag and are the original taggers

Kim if you ever see this I love your videos

If Chuck Norris was a bat 🤔

This must drive people batty

i knew it, i knew morbius was a documentary

Me. Off to the caves, to find a disease ridden bat and extract the virus for scientific purposes of course. (totally not for bioweapons).

Here we go again

A switch that goes 'crickcrickcrickcrick' isnt a switch.

I would really like to see ”batman” one day

Bats are super survivors.

Don't blame the bats for the experiments of men in labs

So don't stress bats, got it.

0:05 Ozzy Osbourne what agree with them being super weird. Especially when you bite there heads off! 😅

If Its so inefficient to fly for them i wonder how they evolved it

Batman choose wisely

5:17 oh God Deadly 5:30

bats eat all the mosquitos that we hate

we just need to learn to fly

So we are still blaming the bats instead of a lab leak?

@luke1495

3 ай бұрын

Exactly bro

I never get sick, like ever. I am BatGuy

so bats believe in the philosophy of The Iceman

Misread the title as “How to carry diseases without dying”. Looks like the retirement home lives another day…

Straight from science versus

Bars are litearally rats with wings😭😭

funny excuse to drink tequila 🤣

Topic idea. Why it's not a good idea to eat a bat.