Bats
Are bats essential for ecological balance?
4.2 (21)
45 mins
Explore how bats use songs to communicate, attract mates, and establish territories. Learn about how bats navigate in complete darkness, as well as their role in the environment and how it is important to address threats to their populations.
Ep 1:
Sonar, Song, and Sentience: Inside the Bat Mind
From a candlelit 18th-century experiment to modern debates on consciousness, explore how scientists uncovered echolocation, bat song culture, and the twin evolution of flight.
Ep 2:
Guardians of the Night, Plagued by White Death
Bats quietly save economies and ecosystems through pest control and pollination, but a mysterious white fungus is now wiping out entire hibernating colonies across North America.
Discussions (14)
Diane
Level 7 · 9 mo agoThe mosquito stats are legit. I put up a bat box and haven't had a bite all summer. Having them around to clear out the pests is absolutely clutch.
Jonathan
Level 9 · 8 mo agoHam mouse is my new vibe
Isabella
Level 2 · 8 mo agoI had no idea bat pups babble like human babies. That is the coolest fact I've heard all week.
