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Some days a job is just a job. Other days you get to talk about 18th century French nobility guillotining garden snails just to watch them grow a new head, and you realize this may be a pretty sweet gig. On this week’s podcast, Robert and I discuss regeneration, prompted by the story of the tiny but immortal hydrozoa Turritopsis nutricula, which possesses the truly remarkable biological ability to go from old to young and back again — endlessly.
As the only flying mammals, bats play unique roles in our world’s ecology. Yet in caves across North America more than a million bats have fallen prey to a mysterious affliction known as white nose syndrome. Tune in and learn more in this podcast.
Let’s say you’re standing outside a cave at dusk. Suddenly, you notice a trail of smoke rising up out of the cave. And you think –that’s weird. And then you think: No, wait. That’s not smoke. Those are birds. How lovely. And then you realize — HOLY MOLEY, those aren’t birds; those are bats.
Vampire Bats Will Bite You — In the Amazon
by Sarah Dowdey | October 30, 2009
One of my favorite tabloid headlines from the now-defunct Weekly World News was this: “Vegan Vampires Attack Trees.” I can just see it — a particularly menacing vegan vampire, perhaps draped in an organic cotton cloak (wool would be inappropriate, right?), lurching toward a helpless tree, preferably maple.
But I’m here to discuss something nonvegan and decidedly bloody: the vampire bat.
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