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Extraordinary Bat Longevity
- Bats live far longer than expected for their tiny size.
- Flora Lichtenberg notes that, scaled by size, humans would live about 250 years.
Catching Bats In Gothic Churches
- Nicole Foley describes chasing bats in Gothic churches that hide colonies in attics.
- Field teams use harp traps to funnel emerging bats into boxes for easy capture.
Longitudinal Sampling Of Individual Bats
- Emma Teeling says teams recapture every bat year after year and sample wing tissue and blood.
- This longitudinal sampling enabled the telomere and aging discoveries.