It was only a bat!

Stupid bats!

The bats again?

Can you turn into a bat?

It's a type of bat.

How about 40? Okay, it's a whole varied response.

Why bats, Master Wayne?

What about this bat they babble about?

Bats are nocturnal. Bats may be.

And this enables them to orient in complete darkness.

Blessed bat again, sir.

So in my lab, we've been using bats to look at two different types of diseases of the senses.

like pollination, that we take for granted.

Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.

And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats?

Very big ears, strange nose leaves, but teeny tiny eyes.

The mouse had a bat.

Bats have learned and evolved how to deal with this.

Drugs, prints, cargo manifests. This bat character gave us everything.

I mean, the batwing that's not from a bat. The saliva

Vampire bats are bats that feed on blood.

Bats are a highly maternal species.

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It's very similar in structure to a bat's wing but...

So indeed, we need them for our ecosystems to function properly.

And of course, bees are not the only important factor here.

Blind? Yes,as a bat.

This sound wave comes out and it reflects and echoes back off objects in their environment, and the bats then hear these echoes and they turn this information into an acoustic image.

This is considered the Five Blessings.

White nose syndrome has wiped out populations of bats.

It started out as birds or bats and then when it gets close to the ground it kinda came together.

I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. I ate bat in Laos.

A lot of people think that bats are birds.

Now how can this help us?

Just imagine what that would be like.

Untamed Americas, for National Geographic.

And for God's sake!

They don't return z depths directly to my brain.

Frequencies of sound... detectable by bats.

So again, if you just look at this bat, you realize sound is very important for its survival.

So right now, in my lab, we're combining state of the art bat field biology, going out and catching the long lived bats, with the most up to date, modern molecular technology to understand better what it is that they do to stop aging as we do.

And I'm glad I'm a bee man and not a bat man, because there's no money to research the bat problems.

Bats are mammals, just like us.

You insolent little bat!

So again, that's the first blessing.