Bats v Flies
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Are Bats Really Bats?
Bats have very low mortality. They take ages to kind of get to adult size compared to a similar sized mammal, like a rat or a mouse. So they dislike liveing, live in the slow lane. Give birth to one baby each. Low reproductive turnover makes them more venerable too. If anything disrupts that, it's a big problem for them. But ther's interesting, ause there's a lot of flies that only give birth to one young at time. And these flies are found on bats. Are they really bat y?
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