Why Bats Carry Deadly Diseases
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- Bats have a bad reputation for carrying nasty diseases-and biology has a reason for this! While it's certainly not their fault, there is actually a lot we can learn from their unique immune systems. Join Stefan Chin for a new episode of SciShow all about these adorable and potentially dangerous critters!
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"Why do humans catch so many of our diseases?" -Bats
@@euctrucker2488 Stop using this as an excuse to be racist. There have been 0 observed cases of direct zoonotic transfer from bats to humans. Every disease that originated in bats and wound up in humans has gone through an intermediary host. Currently, hypotheses of the intermediary species being pangolin for Covid-19 are being tested.
@@5Genjoyer I agree with you but still, some societies need to ease down on the consumption of wild animals and pulling species together from ecosystems that should never get in contact.
@@GSFigure No, you missed his other comment that was deleted. He was being overtly racists. Anyways, here's my source. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920300740?via%3Dihub
PS: all viruses mentioned are lab created viruses. Don't blame bats, blame HUMANS! Also, rabies... if outside and all of a sudden you are bitten by "the flash" seek help immediately! Bats are flying puppies. Let them be.
@@mactireswolfstagandraven975 citation needed
Reminder that bats are also important for *preventing* disease spread by mosquito and other bugs
Felix C good point! mosquitos are so dangerous, lil disease spreading pests they are...
reminder that mosquitos are also important for *preventing* disease aswell by killing people who might have other diseases
Arthur
You do know that stinging already sick individuals is how they pick up diseases, right? If that was supposed to be a joke, it lacks a punchline.
Arthur they suck not blow
I also read an article somewhere about possums eating ticks, and being able to neutralize some of the diseases they carry. So maybe, more possums in the woods means less ticks to spread things like lyme disease.
Too bad possums get a bad rap for looking like rats...
"Congratulations Sir on recovering from COVID-19. Any ideas why you didn't show any symptoms?"
- "I am Batman."
Dourza it’s “because I am BATMAN!”
Bats, the mammals we need, not the mammals we deserve.
great
Over time Coronavirus eventually spread to many countries across the world but China had it right off the bat
@@clarenceboddicker6679 Dad joke level: Master.
So they literally are life defying, other worldly, vampires.
Nothing new!
ya they are not from this world
Nathan 😂😂😂😂😂
But aren't vampires immune to diseases?
Bats - "Man, leave me alone, this is for your own safety"
Humans - "No!"
A fairly inaccurate dinosaur picture Chinese people: You dare challenge me mortals
Human - " Let me put you in my mouth "
Chinese: no*
@Jamie Owns You need professional help.
Leonard can’t handle the truth?
Best to teach bats to keep 6 feet of distance and to yell into their armpits. Job done.
And encourage them to work remotely
*into thier wings
@@abhiprakash74999 so...wingpits?
Bats: I'm blind unless i do echo communication at night.
The solution is a simple *extermination of the Bat vermin*
I'm glad you're reminding us of the good that bats do for our ecosystem and educating us about what we can learn from these mammals from a health prevention perspective rather than condemning them to be a threat to humans.
“Mitochondria is the powerhouse”
Bruno Vazquez of the cell
@@sandwhich14 🤣🤣🤣
There is so much info in this video, top content.
Well researched and dumbed down as much as possible for the topic. Still makes my head spin. I'll just read the jokes in the comments.
Always, all the pbs studios channels are good.
I’m definitely going to have to watch this one again.
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This is why Bruce Wayne was so scared of bats as a child.
COVID-19 isn't from bats but a bio-weapon from the laboratory. The COVID-19 strain is a combination of HIV, SARS, Ebola, H1 flu and other virus strains. This is as unnatural as mixing a cow and human foetus together.
Samson Noah AAAAAaaaaand dafuq does CoVid-19 has to do with Batman? 🤣
@@WatchTLCCRMOFFICIAL Poe's Law?
Lol.bane mask city.
@@WatchTLCCRMOFFICIAL that's a rumor that is not true.
Bats also have a high basal body temperature during flight leaving only certain viruses and bacteria to survive
Meanwhile bats be saying,
“Why the hell you so WEAK humans eh??”
I want to show a bat who's weak!
@Dora Smith Yes do it
**Eats a bat, makes another pandemics for humans**
@@matttube9369 Simple, cook it first, and if you get bitten get rabies shots.
The number of sources linked to below this video make me truly appreciate how much work the SciShow crew put into making these videos, and uploading them to RUclips.
Michael Gibb I know! That list was a mile long! Great job guys!!
Zubat, Golbat, and Crobat being Poison/Flying makes a lot more sense now.
Underrated Comment, also Rouge would be the most seductive way to get it since she’s the sex appeal of the Sonic series.
Got to catch them all
@@199019852007 pokemon!
ironcommando2 Swoobat and Woobat are Psychic/Flying
@@sandwhich14 True, but Zubat, Golbat and Crobat are still the only Poison/Flying types in the entire series after 8 whole generations.
Nobody:
Every Stan who graduated high school: Mitochondria.... YoU MeaN ThE POWerHouSE OF ThE CeLL????
I thought this and then saw this comment. Lmao
What stans? Science Stans?
Exactly
Larissa Osteen Stan from crashcourse
Stan is just teenspeak. Ignore it, it will go away if we just ignore it.
very concise, detailed meta-analysis about the relationship between bats and viruses. It's pretty hard to explain how bats can both dampen and trigger their immune system to keep their fighting mode active but far from overkill mode :> But Scishow did it neatly. Thanks for such great content!
I guess the cost of flight as a mammal is insane and that’s why bats are the only ones
The same could be said about our brains.
lorenzo agreed, “more money more problems”
@@sonoancoralbar we're not the only ones with huge brains, a dolphins brain is pretty huge relative to its body, and they came from an entirely different lineage
Deeeerrrp
Bats have had 150-200 million years to perfect their genetic adaptations to flight.
Bats: ...
Scientists: "WHY ARE YOU ALIVE?"
Interferons, son! They harden in response to viral infection. YOU CAN'T HURT ME, CORONAVIRUS!
Bats: because i am awesome
Because I'm bat, man!
Bat :" because i am the night! FEAR ME!" (squeak!)
Why? Because I'm Bat! Man!
I love bats, they are so cute!
In the summer when I go camping in the BC Canada interior, at night I look up at the sky and see shadows flying across, all the cute bats eating mosquitoes and other bugs.
I just realized that
"Vampire bats are real vampires."
Me: I'm gonna eat this bat
Bat: so you have chosen death
This is a gold-mine for vampire-fiction world building!!... You could explain away their physical strengths and immortality by bat or bat-like genes that protect from cell damage and support high power output... That could translate to super strength and immortality...
And something that drinks blood would likely have to have a supercharged immune system cause, ya know, blood borne diseases (presumably vampire bats have similarly super immune systems as other bats; granted, a lot of vampiric animals are arthropods, and arthropods don’t have as good of immune systems as vertebrates, but it seems like mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice etc. aren’t dying of disease very often, or at least not enough to limit reproduction because they’re sexually mature pretty quickly cause their lives are so short anyway, so I’m guessing that plays a part in why that doesn’t seem to matter too much to blood sucking arthropods...), and other predators, especially ones living in filthy conditions (like crocodiles; they pretty much NEVER have lethal infections, and even mild infections are super rare, their immune systems just annihilate pathogens) also have pretty good immune systems (or at least their saliva is antimicrobial to more of an extent than ours so that they can relatively safely eat raw, bloody meat).
Also, not on the topic of immune systems, but another cool way to explain vampires’ abilities (immortality or at least drastically slowed aging (depending on the kind of vampire you’re going for in a story-undead or alive as it’s own species separate from humans) in particular, but also rapid healing) is that their cells are similar to cancer cells: they make a fuckton of telomerase (enzyme that lets your cell make telomeres, protective “caps” on chromosomes that get shorter and shorter each times cells divide which consequently leads to aging-cancer cells make a slot more telomerase, which keeps telomeres long despite all the cell divisions, and therefore makes cancer immortal. Seriously, canine venereal tumor disease is a *contagious cancer* in dogs (don’t worry; immunocompetent dogs can fight off the cancer in a few months and are then immune to it for life) that is at least 11,000 years old. Just the same tumor (albeit now it’s so old that there are genetic differences between tumors from dog populations in different parts of the world, but they all came from the same original tumor) being transplanted from canine to canine for over ten thousand years. Additionally, cancer cells reproduce FAST, so that could explain the quick healing that vampires have in most lore. Problem is cancer cells also need an exorbitant amount of energy, but vampire cells don’t have to be JUST like cancer cells (that wouldn’t really make sense, anyway), so you can ignore that part, haha. But yeah, this is actually something I’ve thought about for writing vampire stories (but I’m never gonna end up getting around to actually putting one on paper and finishing it d:), and something I'd really like to see someone play with, because how cancer cells work, but just tweaking it a bit (so that they can function properly as cells and not just take over everything and/or use up so much energy it’s impossible to keep up in a way that’s lethal), actually makes a really good explanation for how vampire physiology would be possible
Dude, write that book!
Kaylie Vaden there is a comicbook about morbius. I don’t know how similar it is but yeah
@@katcel16 You should write your book! But before you do, you seriously need to reign in your use of parenthesis XD I tend to overuse it too, but never to the point of using bracket-ception like that (at least not in writing meant to be read by other people). Have you also heard of the Tasmanian devil facial tumour? Aside from on the one in dogs, it's the only known contagious tumour in the world.
Also, "Kurzgesagt - in a Nutshell" recently did a video about the cancer paradox of how massive animals like whales don't get cancer despite their enormormous cell count and extremely long lives. You might find that interesting for how a living being can potentially ignore cancerous tissues and live in spite of them.
dude, you haven't heard of Morbius, the Marvel villain.. they did write about it and there's a movie coming
Lesson to be learnt: leave those flying rats to their own devices... DO NOT EAT THEM...
@coc0s exacto!!!
Dissect them for cures
Depends whether or not they get some imitation stuff, the Beyond Bat, at the grocery markets.
It would be scary if a bat you take care of came back from somewhere and it keeps coughing in your house
They are not rats! The belong to to a group of mammals called chiroptera
Wow! Bats are a lot cooler than I ever imagined! PS - I'll be sure to NEVER have one as a pet or set up a bat house outside my home!
When I was a child, I had many of them as pets in a birdhouse
And then, you carried coronavirus 🤷♀
Edit: and also ebola,rabies, and other virus.
@@mthrqpi9758 lol
This is so true! They get more amazing the more you look at them. From being one of the only 4 groups on earth's history to develop powered flight, to the diversity of being 1/4 of all mammal species, to amazing fascinating adaptations in amost every single espect of their anatomy, bats are incredible!
Bats are amazing animals which belong in the wild, not for sale in a crowded wet market.
1950: "In the future we will have flying cars."
2020: "Should we eat bats or nah?"
Bats are consumed in many cultures due to lack of money. It's the sad truth that many citizens in china cannot afford many types of more expensive meats, thus they resort to more exotic substitutes. Still though, you'd think we'd learn our lesson not to eat bats by now.
@X X Why bring the term white privilege into this discussion? That's the thing about culture and palate, taste is subjective, anyone is entitled to find something distasteful. Just because someone isn't enlightened with the ways of every culture doesn't make them privileged. "White privilege" has nothing to do with this, so don't you dare turn it into that kind of discussion
Bat: took hundreds of years to develop a very effective system that counters viral infections and diseases
Virus: *it's free real estate*
@Marten Dekker yup millions will be a better approximation. Even thousands is little if there is no bottlenecking
Virus : hippity hoppity this is my property
speaking of bats, in 2019, the bat used by babe ruth to hit home run 500 sold for 1 million dollars
😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Which piece of it? lol
"Bats don't immediately get super cancer after their maiden flight" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear, and I'm a little shocked I DID hear it.
During this coronavirus pandemic, I'm glad this video is out to encourage a love for bats, not a hate for them.
And to remain me to fully cooked them for the soup...
This video actually made me hate bats, and I liked them before. Did we watch the same video?
Patrick Jeffrey why would you hate bats. Just stay away from them and leave them alone. And encourage the same
Just don't encourage people to make a 'Hatoful Batfriend' game. We do not need a resurgence of Twilight fans.
What's bat's mistake if some Chinese people love to make their soup and spread the virus ? I hope Chinese people learn from this and stop eating anything that moves. Show me 1 bat who asked them to do so.
Answer: to motivate orphan boys to fight crime.
Yes
Of course
You forgot billionaire
Joker was an orphan.
Thats a smart comment so far today
HIV: *tries to get in a Bat-cell*
Bat-cell: *reacts too quick*
HIV: DOOR STUCK
teacher's pet ?
Reacts too quick?
I'm glad I'm not the only one covid got their brain!
To SciShow, Thank you for using my publication as a source!
Me: *hears the word mitochondria*
Me: *whispers* it's the powerhouse of the cell
Me: *whispers* Geek!
I literallyjust did that lol
One of the Best lines in Boyinaband song 😍 but yeah.
Only thing I learned in HS biology class lol
"they might be the key to us living longer", I don't know man I don't think we need vampires being real
... Outside of the stock market, anyway...
Not like that.. I am pretty sure he meant we should eat them to get their abilities. /S
Thank you so much for the comprehensive science, a lot of other videos don’t explain as well as you do how bats’ immune systems work.
Fantastic episode! Thank you for providing such great information.
Rule 1 - No eating bats
Rule 2 - No bat farms or bats as pets
Rule 3 - Stay away from bats
Visit beautiful downtown Louisville, Kentucky, home of the slugger...
Rule 4 - Splice humankind with bats
I have a pet bat tho
Obstacle: bats are everywhere.
Ever walked at night in the country? You will get circled by bats!
Bats: only mammal to fly
Humans: flies with planes
Bats: you have chosen virus
He said self-powered flight, genius.
Hooman: You'll die!
Bat: But you're the one who'll get cancer, Gotcha! 🦇
Exactly
Cancer???
Are you a virgin, Robeela?
@@JackFrostIsHere you sure *this* is the kind of question you ask a stranger?
@@robeelakhan2261 yeah, dead sure. Cause you seem to have the mentality to make jokes similar to that of a kindergarten child
Thank you, very clear, informative and complete!
When overclocked system with special cooling system also run _"super heavy application"_ with relatively small stuttering and freezing because their specifications,
and then the *_super heavy application_* run in the "stock non-modified ordinary system with ordinary cooling system"
The result is: *_freezing & stuttering_* even permanent damage (death)
An pc perspective explanation😃😃
Humans: another disease? Why?
Bats: allow us to introduce ourselves.
Ice Bear: Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm a Bat of wealth and taste.
Been around for a long long year,
Stole many a moth's soul and fate.
I was 'round when _Scrotifera_
Had his moment of doubt and pain.
Made damn sure that _Laurasiatheria_
Washed his paws and sealed his fate.
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.
But what's puzzling you is the nature or nurture of my game.
Stuck around Pangaealand
When I saw it was a time for a change.
Extincted _Ferugliotherium_
_windhauseni_ screamed in vain!
I flew on track, avoided becoming a snack
While Pangaea broke and tectonic plates cracked.
Pleased to meet you, hope you've got some time.
But what's confusing you is just the cladistics of my line.
I watched with glee while your kings and queens
Fought over quarantines and economies.
I shouted out "Who killed the dinosaurs?"
When after all, it was a rock, mosquitoes and me.
Let me please introduce myself,
I'm a bat of renown and more.
And I laid traps for health workers
Who get killed before they find a cure.
Pleased to meet you, hope you're one of my fans.
But what's puzzlin' you is just the patagia of my hands.
[Ultrasound solo]
Pleased to meet you, want some Nova lox?
Oh, and do you have any fruit for my cousin, Flying Fox?
Just as every bird is a dinosaur,
And all the humans apes,
_Est quia caudae capitibus,_ just call me _Fledermaus,_
And I don't need no damn restraints!
So if you meet me, have some courtesy,
Have some sympathy, and some taste;
Use all your well-learned politesse,
Or I'll splash Corona in your face!
Pleased to meet you, got any tasty bugs?
I'm starvin', man, and I haven't eaten since I last fed on Doug
(I am part Vampire Bat, don'chaknow.)
So is this piece amazing. I had to watch several times just to catch it all. Thank you.
This is a really excellent video that will be SUPER useful for my now-online mammalogy class. Thanks!
A bat flew into my face 17 years ago and I got really sick afterwards, probably with West Nile. It might have been a coincidence, but I have always suspected that the bat did it.
Tell me more about it.
www.cfsph.iastate.edu/FastFacts/pdfs/west_nile_fever_F.pdf
Sleekoduck corona??
I was in the middle East at the time, West Nile would have been a possibility. As for the bat, it scared the beejeebers out of me. I'm not a fan of rats and mice, and bats are rats with wings as far as I am concerned. I felt contaminated from that thing touching my face.
@@AdithyanSylvester thanks! Yeah, I think I had encephalitis from it, I got really sick and my roommate thought I was dying. Meningitis is the most dangerous form.
THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Tiffany Zoe he rly avoided saying it haha
Any time someone brings up Mitochondria, i say this loudly in my head.
Kill me
K
Amen!
thank you for you brilliance my good sir ...the world needs you and you are walking in you calling
Great work you guys👍🏽
The first half of this episode seemed like a non-stop barrage of "waith, there's more" as the bat-virus war turned more and more complex
Yep the fascinating thing about our universe is that the deeper you look at something the more and more complex it becomes seemingly without exception
@@Dragrath1 If you go deep enough, you eventually reach the quantum mechanical level, & oh boy is that complicated.
Magmagan
Immunology is usually pretty complicated.
*(ring)wraith
This video actually made the subject as simple and easy as possible which can be understood even by elementary school students. Studying the university level academic books about these topics can make our heads spin.
“Interferon Alfa” … sounds more like a mecha anime series
A string of seemingly random English words that even without context sounds really cool? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't already the name of an anime.
It's either that or something in Japanese that's like 15 words long and virtually impossible to translate without it sounding stupid.
I'd watch it
*Alpha
are you dense? It was literally spelled on the screen
Zack One. No one cares.
Two, still sounds like an anime name.
Three. No one here is dense, if anything you are for taking a joke too seriously.
This is really informative and useful at this time of pandemonium, thank you!
That's one of the most informative and interesting videos I've ever watched. Thanks a lot!
11/10 and I think II'll watch this a few more times. You've stimulated my aging brain.
The problem lies with "wet markets" where endangered species are collected and stored in close and unsanitary conditions. The combination of these factors are breeding grounds for disease. Bats, primates, birds, pangolins, exotic cats, reptiles, and lizards are subject to horrible conditions as they are used in the illegal exotic pet trade and food consumption. These animals have no place to move, they are surrounded by bodily fluids, excrement, and filthy conditions. Wildlife conservation organizations are trying to eliminate these wet markets but it is an uphill battle. It is important not to purchase or smuggle wildlife from its natural habitat. If you buy birds do research and purchase from a local (USA based) reputable breeder. Don't demonize the animals, blame humans who are responsible for the diseases appearing worldwide.
Absolutely human's fault. Both encroachment into natural habitats where we interact more with wild animals, and transporting them all over the place for consumption, pets, and "research". These animals are much more stressed than they would be in nature, which leads to them becoming ill with diseases they might normally be able to fight off. Bats are an amazing species, and the more we learn about them, the more we discover that they could be the secret to solving some of the worst viral diseases humans get. I for one love bats. Also, it is not the fault of the average chinese or asian person... it's the fault of those specific people who choose to market these animals and those who buy and/or consume them. There are good and bad people of every race and nationality, so don't blame the innocent. Instead hold those who perpetrate the crime responsible, and/or the regulators who allow it to happen.
Excellent points
Its going to require economic embargoes, and international inspections to end this primitive practice. Its no different from banning chemical or nuclear weapons - intentional or not, this is a biological weapon that has already caused worldwide death and destruction more than once. If China can rise from economic depravity into the 2nd most powerful economy in the world, build supercomputers, fighter jets, and land robots on the moon, they can certainly contain and eliminate a nasty cultural habit that benefits nobody.
Don't forget a lot those you mention, and more are used as a form of aphrodisiac, not only eaten.
The problem is that while many of these markets and sales of endangered wildlife are already illegal, Chinese traditional medicine and ways of eating are ingrained in many places so you get illegal markets that operate outside of the law. Since they are already illegal then they are also generally unsanitary ans so they are breeding grounds for potential diseases. Eventually they'll probably go away, there's already been pushback from the government and younger generations but it's something that takes time.
Superb research and synthesis job! Congratulation for this high-quality video
Excellent information!....Thank you!!
Whoever said one person can’t change the world, never ate an undercooked bat.
Or try not eating a bat at all.
Best comment yet !!!
prepperskills don’t eat bats period
People across the world have been eating bats and other animals for thousands of years it ain't going to stop lol. This is just a rare event
@@Superbed2 this is just a bioweapon that was either accidentally or intentionally let lose from the ONLY Lvl4 BioLab in ALL if China located in, you guessed it...Wuhan.
Virus came from man eating bat.
Bats anywhere: "what's social distancing?"
I just opened the video and was shown an ad by a naturopathic "doctor" telling me how to beat cancer... 😬 is it possible for your channel to disable these nonsense ads?
you can block specific ads ruclips.net/video/kCiurehddXI/видео.html
Yeah I had the same thing, yikes
great content! very tight editing, on point!
I had no idea there were so many species of bats! That's batsh- that's crazy!
😄
I see you're a character
DivideByZeroGetCake It’s The Guano!
I guess 25% of all mammal species are bats alone.
@@Pedrosa2541 1/5 = 0.2 = 20%
25% = 0.25 = 1/4
Usually I wouldn't call someone out like this, but most people know what a quarter is.
Great video, I love bats. My local zoo has a large free flying bat exhibit with several species in a dark enclosure with some other nocturnal critters. The guano has a smell that isn't exactly unpleasant, just unique. I find them fascinating, such odd creatures.
Dunno if it's the Brookfield Zoo, but when I volunteered there, I would spend half of every lunch break in the free flying Rodriguez Fruit Bat exhibit in the Australia House
Fascinating animals
Bats are so cute 🥺🦇
Where is your local zoo?
*you might find the history of the 1865 Guano war on Peru's Chincha Islands rather interesting then as it was used in the production of fertilizers and explosives, and was highly prized in Europe at the time. Spanish troops occupied the Peruvian Islands in April 1864 in order to profit from the guano trade...seriously*
*here's a really good article on the subject: **www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-the-western-world-ran-on-guano*
Scott Mantooth I think this was part of the plot of the James Bond book DR No
Woww! Such a highly-informative episode - as always! Huge kudoz to the SciShow Team! Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey!
Thanks, good info.
Pangolin's, a species poached largely to meet cruise-ship tourists' demands are the most likely intermediate species.
Jared Pool what??? Burn those Cruise ships now or make them shelter for the homeless. so those rich people on cruise pay to eat wild animals???
@Anthony O'Neal Because they lie about everything. That which they call good is bad and that which they call bad is good. The Bible told me so. Oh, by the way, there is an ending.
Something big is coming and I somehow think the rich will still be rich and in control. Of course, until it is over.
Jared Pool : I very strongly doubt your affirmation. Give me your evidence to back this up. Chinese have been consuming pangolin meat and scales for « medicinal purposes » since forever, but I’ve never read a word about cruise-ship passengers.
fake attempt to link this animal to China and then blame China for the Virus. Researchers said it was 85%-92% match and NOT ENOUGH to link the virus to this animal. US is selling misinformation as much as China.
@@rocketomega11 .... what..? The virus came from bats in china. This is 100% a virus that originated in China. Most likely reason is chineese markets were both aninals(pangolins and bats) are sold live.
I knew it was only a matter of time till SciSchow covered this 😬
Many years ago a coworker told me her new diet pills had guano in it. I asked if it might actually have guarana instead. She refused to go with that, insisted it was guano, and refused to believe me when I explained what guano was.
I hope she's doing well now and is staying off the guano.
I love this channel for always bringing us trustable information :D greetings from Peru
why the hell did I get an anti vax vitamin ad here?
That’s what I’m wondering as well. Oh no, don’t tell me they’re letting Karen advertise, especially during this outbreak.
They want you to Leggo of your life?
Install Google Adblock. IT WORKS.
I didn't get any ads for this video.... And I'm on mobile so I can't do Adblock
There are anti vax ads? Wth
Great video SciShow! Bats are truly amazing animals. They are the best & ultimate hibernators. During hibernation their body temperature drops to as low as the surrounding ambient temperature & their heart rate drops to as low as 1 to 2 beats per minute! Totally incredible....... 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
I love this channel one of the best I've seen in a long time
Thanks......super awesome video!!!!
How he matches the background with his Shirt...😦
And Cytokine storms was also the most deadly aspect of the 1918 Flu pandemic...🤔
And most recently they managed to do something all of humanity couldn’t achieve, massively decreasing global emissions
Very informative and we'll produced content! Cool to find a science channel on this level in my feed, Subscribed👍
Loved it thanks!
Super interesting! For the past 2 months I did a research internship on a group of molecules that among other things induce Interferon response, now I learned another thing that I can put into the theory part of my lab report.
Muscle Hank: *EAT UR VITAMINS GUYS*
I am Grateful to have found you !!
That presentation was Batass !!!
❤️🌈🙏🔥📡🎶🌎☀️
Amazing video. Information dense, in the best way possible
Acute Inflammatory Response:AIR
Me with asthma: Ha... nice...
I caught that, too. (I'm also asthmatic.) The *first* thought that went through my head, though, was: huh, very appropriate since bats catch so much _air_ . 😃 ...I should be embarrassed... lol 🤣
Bats are cool, but after all this we need to limit our interaction with them. No more catching them or eating them. Scientific study only.
Or tearing down jungles for farmland. Habitat destruction is a huge part of the reason people in west Africa are now being exposed to Ebola-carrying bats so much (their habitats are destroyed, humans come into that area of destroyed habitat, humans encounter these bats and/or their guano).
NO! that was the most likely cause. 280m from the market blamed is the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That in Nov 2019 was advertising for postdocs and PhD students to study bat coranvirises and how they transmit to humans. They had lots of horseshoe bats and the intermediary animal blamed. So the most likely source with a cover up - blame the market where bats were not sold.
@@Nemothewonderfish its also taboo in China to eat bats, so to any of the morons who keep claiming the Chinese eat bats, they don't
@@jamestor6700sure they just wash them in bowls of soup ruclips.net/video/myHCdK9OMec/видео.html
Such an amazing video, thank you :)
Excellent show....
People: Ew, why would anyone eat bats? Don't you know you can get sick from doing that?
Also people: *performs anilingus*
Ozzy Osbourne
@@erikk77 Makes you wonder if Ozzy Osborne's slurred speech has anything to do with a bat's head he bit off?
Could we study viruses in bats that are currently unknown to start developing medication because the first humans are even infected?
Awesome idea
I think yes hypothetically, but practically it would not be a priority when there are other active threats. We can't allocate resources to research hundreds of viruses that might or might not be transmitted to us and cause a problem when there are viruses and diseases already infecting us needing research
@Erika With a K I was aware of the original S strain and mutate 1 L strain what is the other mutation?
If you thought about it, they have.
THIS is how you provide the research in your video description 👏
Sources section reminds me of those facebook spammers when you press on "show more" and damn long list comes. Thank you for your hard work
Good opportunity for an Ozzy reference.
I just read somewhere, he didn't know it was a real bat. Some one threw it on stage, and he figured it was candy or something.
Bunker Sieben he did acid everyday for a year straight, not to mention the monstrous amounts of other drugs he’s done throughout his life.
Christel Headington he thought it was one of the fake rubber ones lmao
Informative and educational!
RUclips: demonetized!
There’s so much information and it’s clear so much work went into this video. Thank you! Can I suggest a summary sheet included to help follow along with the points made? It helps learners like me who absorb more info reading.
You need to read research paper that trace the actual origin and host of viruses.
This was great. It put things into perspective
Video: Human disturbance of bat’s habitat causes the transfer of zoonotic diseases...
Me: So do we stop?
Video: Well yes, but actually no 😬
Raccoons and snakes are natural predators of bats. They kill more bats than owls and hawks. Problem is China is domesticating raccoons for their fur. And if we kill all the bats, we would have an insect problem. Man, Mother Nature is confusing:
@@cebuanoguy It's pretty simple, stop with the wet markets, starting cooking wild animals and don't eat bats. Those little things carry some insanely dangerous viruses.
@@gheddimuddey1584 Or simply stop exploiting animals
L Blueful ... And stop moving into/ruining animals habitats
this one kind of blew my mind !
God I love RUclips (and this channel and channels like this) for finally making me love science and history
Don’t blame Bats for Corona Virus, Blame Humans.
blame the chinese?
Brandon Williams Exactly. I’m sick of people wanting to kill bats because of coronavirus
@GreaterGood510 the swine flu comes from Mexico
America encompasses at least three countries
That's your answer jackass
ecofascist
@@brandonfoley7519 yeah stupid america accepting everyone from any county from asia to south america. Not surprised if they are always in the dire situations when these epidemics specially pandemics happen. The only kind of virus i know that came out of US is that influenza virus strain h1n1 which is the strain that caused spanish flu and seasonal flu. However, this day they have these diseases from AIDS to zika virus.
Imagine how toxic we'll be to potential alien life forms once we master the skills of the bat. lol
You think it'll achive H.G.Wells levels of lethality?
Damn i learned alot from this video thank you so much !
I already knew that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
This should be a 3 part series:
Part 1- Why Do Bats Carry So Many Dangerous Diseases?
Part 2- Why Do Rats Carry So Many Dangerous Diseases?
Part 3- Why Do Chinese People Eat Bats and Rats?
I mean the French eat snails and foie gras. It’s not that they can’t eat rats and bats but how the rats and bats are harvested. If they are produced in clean farms, you could safely eat bats that have no viruses in them.
@macsporan but China is better than the past now. New generations should stop eat a freaking food for stop new virus.
China should make it illegal if someone eat a freaking food.
People in Congo hunt bats....
@@kgflip7083 Old habits die hard.