This week Paul is joined by special guest host Kate Shaw from the Strange Animals podcast to revisit an episode we did four years ago! Bats!

Please go listen to the Strange Animals Podcast wherever fine podcasts are sold. You can also go to her website:

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/science/vampire-bats-viruses.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151818.htm

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sound-absorbent-wings-and-fur-help-some-moths-evade-bats

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/how-bats-have-outsmarted-viruses-including-coronaviruses-65-million-years

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2020/03/covid19-faqs.php#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20is%20the,%E2%80%9Cnovel%20coronavirus%E2%80%9D.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49496760

https://weeklyworldnews.com/

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About our voice actors:The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis.Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast.Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1)Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit.Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast.Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty,and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

The feature image used is "bat" by Noel Reynolds and is shared under a Creative Commons license (Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). You can view more of Mr. Reynolds' photographs on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29237715@N05/