Rewind Ep. 21 - Bats | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Original airdate: April 2, 2019 Bats have a bad reputation because of the ones that drink blood or spread disease, but these furry flying critters can be pretty cute! This week, we’re talking about everything from echolocation to weird potential uses for bat poop. Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [Poem] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141 [Truth or Fail] Bats that spend time on the ground: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953 https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/01/why-fly-when-you-can-shuffle-the-lesser-short-tailed-bat-prefers-the-ground/ Diurnal bats: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/ https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/ https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml Suction cup bats: https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/ [Fact Off] Bat & dolphin echolocation: https://evolutionnews.org/2012/05/tangling_the_tr/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/refined-fine-tuned-placental-mammal-family-tree/ Moth echolocation blocker: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/ http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416 [Ask the Science Couch] White-nose syndrome: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bats-could-bounce-back-devastating-white-nose-syndrome-180969378/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48 [Butt One More Thing] Bat guano gunpowder: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dkc09 #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents