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Chiropterology (BATS) Encore with Merlin Tuttle

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Is Bats the Source of Ebola?

The last time they said they had real good evidence that ebola might come from bats, they found a piece of arnaviris in a bat insectiverous bat's mouth. But even touching a rabbit bat is not an exposure if you're not bitten or exposed to an open wound. Even sick bats rarely become aggressive. In 60 years of studying baths all over the world, hundreds of species, i have yet to see an aggressive batter actually going out and attacking somebody. I mean a vampire bat in latin america may sneak up and try to get a nip at nihe an, i please, ave a bite. That's not what we're talking about in the rest

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