Sep 24, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
We're back for season 3 with a new BATch of episodes! Yes this week we are unleashing our most groan-worthy puns in a quest to discover the amazing biology of bats. The live far longer than you might…
Oh, bats are amazing.
Like I know a lot of people, the idea of bats just gives them the creeps.
Basically a flying rodent.
They're not actually rodents, by the way.
But there's just some incredible stuff about bats.
So let's just talk about why we're doing an episode about bats.
That's a good start.
Why are we doing an episode about bats?
So...
There's all kinds of reasons.
Number one, they have a famously tough immune system.
Like they have, as far as we know, the toughest immune system of any mammal.
They live far longer than any small mammal is entitled to.
They are the only mammal that has powered flight.
The only mammal.
Some mammals are gliders, but these are the only guys who actually have properly powered flight.
Humans.
Humans.
Humans not using their own body parts.
All right.
OK.
And, you know, there's a huge number of bat species.
So there are mammals like us.
Right.
If you were to take a very long piece of paper and write down the names of every single species of mammal, one in five would be bats.
Oh, bats are amazing.
Like I know a lot of people, the idea of bats just gives them the creeps.
Basically a flying rodent.
They're not actually rodents, by the way.
But there's just some incredible stuff about bats.
So let's just talk about why we're doing an episode about bats.
That's a good start.
Why are we doing an episode about bats?
So...
There's all kinds of reasons.
Number one, they have a famously tough immune system.
Like they have, as far as we know, the toughest immune system of any mammal.
They live far longer than any small mammal is entitled to.
They are the only mammal that has powered flight.
The only mammal.
Some mammals are gliders, but these are the only guys who actually have properly powered flight.
Humans.
Humans.
Humans not using their own body parts.
All right.
OK.
And, you know, there's a huge number of bat species.
So there are mammals like us.
Right.
If you were to take a very long piece of paper and write down the names of every single species of mammal, one in five would be bats.
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