Bats, Bones, and Biology
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Chapters
0:00
Intro
2:18
Do bats drink blood and what do they eat? [vampire bats]
4:11
Bat size. [Bumblebee and Flying Fox bats]
5:29
Are bats blind?
5:53
How do bats navigate at night? [Echo location]
7:05
Ultrasonic sounds.
7:31
Listen to two bat call sounds.
9:34
Can other animals hear bat calls?
9:48
Why do we need bats? What would the world be like without bats?
10:25
How many kinds of bats are there in the world?
10:33
One of the stranger lookin bats.
11:08
What's different about bat skeletons and why are they the only mammals that fly?
13:15
What do our bones do for us?
15:17
What does a paleontologist do?
16:00
What's the largest bone or skeleton you've studied?
16:46
What is the largest bone of any animal?
17:14
What is the smallest bone of any animal?
18:13
Do we have a funny bone?
19:44
Easy way to remember how many bones are in the adult human skeleton.
20:17
What happened to all the extra bones we have when we are born? [Cartilage and bone - connective tissue]
22:35
What is cartilage and what is bone?
23:26
What does it take to have really strong bones? [milk - dairy - vitamin D]
24:04
When did you first know you wanted to be a scientist?
26:15
What would you do if you could not be a biologist?
27:25
What advice do you have for future biologists?
29:38
Sign-off [Bat article, yo-yo skeleton coloring page]
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Bats, Bones, and Biology
Oct 17, 2009
Episode 54
Dr. Biology Talks with Rebecca Fisher & Elizabeth Hagen
Are there vampire bats waiting to drink your blood? Do we have a funny bone in our body? These are just a few of the things Dr. Biology and his guests Rebecca Fisher and Elizabeth Hagen talk about in this interesting episode. You can even listen to some real bat chatter.
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