The Truth About Bats (Full Documentary)
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Bats are some of the world's most misunderstood mammals. Despite the direct benefits bats bring to society (by pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, and controlling pest populations) bats are often villainized in myths. Emily Stanford went on a year-long global expedition to explore how different cultures perceive bats and how these perceptions ultimately impact bats' survival.
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My almost 3 year old has a fascination with bat's. Asked what pet she'd like to have... She said a bat so here we are and honestly thank you. I've never liked bats and I didn't even realise it was because of the negative stigma about them. I appreciate all this knowledge.
I remember when i was a kid in the 70s the sky was cover by them, every direction i look i saw bats flyng. In the 80s i start to see fewer of them and in the 90s they were gone ,millions of velvety bats gone in 20 years. I really miss them and i know that nobody will ever see that again. I feel really lucky that i witnessed that as a kid. I am gratefull for Dr Tuttle for saving millions of bats in these days when the destruction of the planet is extreme to say the least.
Bats are so fascinating and certainly not scary at all! So lovely to see them flying in large numbers and roosting together.. flying foxes are so incredibly cute and beautiful! I'm glad to have learned that they are extremely useful and important for nature and farming!!!
9:30 conservation? My man, that is INCEPTION! Way to go!
11:10 i didn’t know ticks were such a problem for bats. I have Lyme disease from those little shits. I’ve always been fascinated by bats and never understood why people didn’t like them.
I appreciate this video so much. I've just only come to really get to know bats, and they are truly amazing, beautiful creatures. We used to see the bats (micro) come out at dusk, but I've noticed a decrease in sighting during the last couple of years. I credit that to the building of more houses in my area, and a decrease in "housing" for them. I've discussed this with my spouse, and after a good arm twisting (kidding, of course), we've decided to place a couple of bat boxes on our property. As we only have a couple of acres, I figure we can support two in the back of my lot, since there isn't anything there. There are plenty of insects here to support them, since there are still a few farms close by. If they do eat mosquitoes, BINGO - added benefits. I have other plans for further action, but those will be in the (I hope not too distant) future. Thank you again for this wonderfully informative video, I feel like it was much needed.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your kind words! Aside from donating to bat conservation orgs, putting up a bat house is the best way to help bats! :)
I recommend BatBnB bat houses because they’re designed with bat researchers and have a high success rate :)
Thank you so much again! Your words made making the documentary worth it!
In CT, USA. We had bats living in our roof. Neighbours came asking to kill them because of rabies. They believed that it is enough to have a bat with you in the same room to catch it. And we are talking about well educated people. Now back in Australia, the problem is a bit different. We cut trees like there is no tomorrow, fires burn what we do not cut, and the heat wave killing them in summer. It's heart breaking to see. We are installing shelters for them and providing them water in summer. But this is too little compare to the magnitude of damage
Well educated just means they have a fancy piece of paper in a frame somewhere.
I remember learning about dr. Merlin Tuttle on The New Yorker magazine, and I already loved bats by then, but his dedication to this sublime animal made me love them even more. I like to think that I have done a small part to help by planting 320 thousand trees from 50 different species of the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. I like to think maybe I have helped some bats in the process.
That’s fantastic! Deforestation is one of the biggest pressures causing bats to decline. Thank you so much for helping restore the forests and giving bats and other animals places to live :)
@@WanderingPathProductions This summer I didn't notice the bats in the trees by my apartment building like a couple years ago. This is in central New York State. Sure hope they are still around. This little area was once a swamp and we get mosquitos every summer.
You personally planted 320,000 trees?! How long did that take?! That’s crazy! Keep up the good work!
Been re-reading the Silverwing books and I've developed a newfound appreciation for these little guys. Even the big scary looking Spectral Bats serve an important role as an apex predator in their region.
Going to teach this to my students online for english research. TY!
Thank you so much for sharing this information with them! Bats certainly need our help with a better reputation. Thanks for all you do to teach the next generation! :)
That's awesome. Thanks teach.
It's a shame and very sad to think that one of the animals that we're given to us by mother nature and the guardians Keepers of the universe is now being used as a weapon that's sad because they will Perish once they have filled their mission once again another animal extinct. Bats are one of the most important animals on the planet All Creatures Great and Small have a purpose.
This is so true! Extinction is a heavy topic on my heart. Thanks for all you do to raise awareness for animals!
How you know its given by mother nature? Humans very selfish when something saves you a cent you save it and destroy rest. Just a flowery talk would not change that.... 😂😂
They are symbols of the Spooky Season yet we Humans do them a great injustice. Bats are assets to us in so many ways. Yet we vilify the as filthy unclean & vile creatures. Bats are the Hero's that Humans need, but not the ones that they deserve. 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
@@WanderingPathProductions They are symbols of the Spooky Season yet we Humans do them a great injustice. Bats are assets to us in so many ways. Yet we vilify the as filthy unclean & vile creatures. Bats are the Hero's that Humans need, but not the ones that they deserve. 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
It seems like a hopeless situation the bats of the Universe are now disappearing I don't know whether humans realise that..
This is amazing! Well done! Bats need this level of dedication, especially now...
Nils Bouillard Thanks! Please help share it around!:)
@@WanderingPathProductions Will do! :)
What a documentary
This changed my perspective towards bats
Eats insects, secures food supply for all manner of species and looks like mini canine… Bats are awesome and so adorable, they deserve all the love and protection ❤️❤️
Couldn’t agree more!
What a wonderful video, glad I learned this info, I'll be sure to share... thank you.
Thank you so much Richard! That’s so kind to hear and thank you so much for helping share it! :) Bats need our help
Bats are essential to our survival…they are ancient and amazing.🖤🇨🇦
You're a very clever man with much knowledge which I enjoy listening to you you're so interesting& intriguing
Thank you we’re so glad to hear you enjoyed the film! :)
Thanks for helping me change my perception of bats. They are so unique, let's protect them
Thank you so much, I’m so glad you found the video informative! :) I fell in love with them by realizing how cute and important they are too. :)
Exactly, but be carefull about rabies and corona viruses
@@mehmetgoren6807 That's a lie told just to promote the "pandemic" and vaccines. Stop spreading the propaganda.
@@mehmetgoren6807 Bats can’t give you coronavirus. You can’t catch it from any animal except humans. They can carry rabies, but all animals can. Even domestic pets.
Bats are essential to our ecosystem all over the world. They are amazing animals who are very misunderstood. I appreciate this video so much. Thank you for the effort to boost the awareness of these wonderful creatures.
Bravooo bravoooooo
I remember coming across a small book by Merlin Tuttle as a child. I already thought bats were cute, but was utterly delighted to learn how amazing they really are.
Merlin Tuttle is gay, you know.
@@haroldplum923 You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing lmao
@@raven7146 Oh, not at all. I'm just saying be careful whose books you read or not. They might be light in their loafers, or even criminals.
This is a great video. Bats are beautiful creatures, no matter what type they are. All are equally as important and amazing. Bats always had a bad rap but now because of this virus, people are hating them even more and even killing them, for something they didn’t even cause. I wish everyone in the world could see this video and realize how amazing bats are and how much we need them. Without them, many people would be dying. These beauties save lives and help the world, and people just don’t see that.
Thank you so much! They are very misunderstood and important animals. My purpose in making this film was to help more people value them, so thank you so much. Please help share it around! :)
Come on man dont just think of your benefits, bats kill tons of insects every night insects are endangered too. Bats needs to be killed too.
Not only did bats having nothing to do with this "pandemic," the entire premise of viruses being transmitted through the air is a LIE. Viral particles can only be deliberately transmitted through blood via injection. The bat story was used to add a "demonic, vampirish" aspect to the fear.
@@aashishmainali1609 The main thing that is killing insects is pesticide use- Bats are a natural alternative to using pesticides. Bats help control insects in a balanced way and they reduce our need to rely on toxic and harmful pesticides. The solution is to live with wildlife, rather than exterminating everything.
@@aashishmainali1609 Bats need to eat insects, it is natural, and it is their diet. Not all bats are insectivores either. Your comment is honestly pathetic. It’s their instincts to survive, and they need food to survive. Some insects, like mosquitoes, can spread diseases to humans, and even other animals. Bats help prevent that by eating thousands of them. Many bat species are endangered too. Bats mainly eat moths and beetles, not all moths and beetles are endangered, and mosquitoes do no good.
Thank you so much for making this.
Thank you for this really interesting video! I have just kinda fell in love with bats and I am learning more about them thanks to you 🙏
Thank you so much! That’s so kind to hear! Hearing messages like yours make all the time that went into making it worth it
Great content! Looking forward to more!
Rugged Research Thank you! :)
Its really sad to think people are so ignorant about a cute creature that is so important to the environment .
Definitely an eye opener!
Bats are one if my favourite animals.
Whenever birding at night, I always look for bat (Or Indian Flying Fox roosting on trees).
They are one of the most intriguing to me. But due to lack of reference and bat field guides, never got to know which bat I am seeing (other than 4-5 sp.)
They’re my favorite too! It’s so cool to get to see them - especially the flying foxes! It is hard to tell which species it is
i appreciate this video so much, in the last few months i have gotten very interested in bats and helping people understand how incredible they are is the best thing we can do to save them.
I’m gonna need to know what species of bats those were at 6:36, 6:39 and 6:43, but especially the last two. They look so cool! I never knew bats could have interesting features like that.
Loved this video:)
Thank you that’s so nice to hear! :)
This was an excellent video. I love seeing wildlife outside. However I am guilty of feeling threatened when it comes to wildlife coming into the house. That's behavior that I must change.
Thanks I’m so glad you liked the video! That’s completely understandable! The key I think is to better proof our houses so wildlife can’t get in, but also to be more tolerant of wildlife in their environments. (Like for example, by using less pesticides). For bats, putting up a bat house is a great way to encourage them to move out of your house, but also accepting them nearby at a safe distance :) I recommend BatBnB.com for bat houses :)
Great video. See em alot when I do tile roofs. Had no idea.
Merlin Tuttle! Im reading his book with the same title as this video. He's probably the most important person ever in the bat world, he's made so many contributions to the field of bat study. Highly reccomend his book!
Well done. I see bats more often than not in my area of Arizona, Mexican Browns and American Blacks mostly. I am pretty sure there are Lesser Long Nose visiting my house as all my hummingbird feeders are dry in the morning.
I wish there was a to do list for bat protection. There's so little people working on this & I want to be one of them!
That’s so kind of you! I’m so glad to hear that you want to help save the bats :) To help them, putting up a bat house is a great way to give them a safe home (Batbnb.com has a lot of good information about bat houses :), or share nice photos of bats or this video to help people realize that they’re not the scary monsters in movies. :)
Thanks Dr Tuttle, for trying to save the world bats, save the bats world. Excellent work, God bless you
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sweet cute amazing bats are a blessing alwayz...
I adore them alwayz🧡
Me too!😊
I Adore BAts they are so useful for the ecosystem they are smart, intelligent creatures i love them. A big hug from Italy
Beautiful creatures. Let's take better care of them!🦇💕
They are symbols of the Spooky Season yet we Humans do them a great injustice. Bats are assets to us in so many ways. Yet we vilify the as filthy unclean & vile creatures. Bats are the Hero's that Humans need, but not the ones that they deserve. 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
Could you upload this video in a reel or something on Instagram? I'd really like to share this video
It sucks that there's so much silly cultural negative perception of them that has a real impact on how people treat them or think about them... when it just takes a minute of watching them interact with other bats or with people to see clearly and obviously that they are sweet, social mammals which can be just as cute and affectionate as any other fuzzy little forest animal that people think fondly of... it's so unfortunate and silly that this is still a problem.
Very true! But that’s why even telling people little facts like ‘Did you know bats eat mosquitoes?’ Can really help change peoples attitudes and behaviors towards them :) Thanks for your help
me and my bff aka study buddie watched this video for a school project will recomend to my other classmates!!!!!! (we almost cried watching this)
Aw thank you so much! I’m so glad to hear you all enjoyed it!
this is the first serious documentary for these animals... im sad for this. Nobody never create a documentary that not rapresents this animals bads or creepy, like this :) thank u
I love bats...
Perhaps we fear what we dont understand
I agree… I think that’s very true
💕 thanks 💕🦇
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it! Please feel free to share it :)
I have a question. I have about 50 bats flying around my front yard at night. I assume they are eating bugs I have lots of trees in my front yard, my question is I sit outside at night will these bats bother me or try and bite me? I think there pretty cool looking the way they fly around but I wanna make sure I will not get attacked, so far they have not bothered me i like watching them fly around, just wanna make sure. Thanks.
Hi great question! Bats are very safe to have in your yard. Bats will only bite in self defense if they are grabbed with bare hands, never try touching a wild animal. But having them flying around in your yard is perfectly safe and great for getting rid of mosquitoes and other bugs :)
Master Roshi @ 3:47 😂
i'm really afraid of bats, i used to be okay with them until i learned about rabies, my question is how likely is a bat to ran into me? I'm afraid of getting rabies that way because i've seen bats in my yard and i saw one a little before dusk and i worry it might have rabies now. Also i read about one guy in Vancouver that got rabies from a bat hitting him on his hand at random, so i'm scared ever since
Hi, great question. Getting rabies from bats is actually really really rare! Worldwide, it’s more likely to get rabies from a dog. The only way you could get it is if a wild animal bites you. Never touch an animal on the ground because if it is on the ground, it is more likely to be sick. Most healthy bats flying around do not have rabies because if they are sick with rabies, they die within a week and research shows that they usually don’t pass it on to the other bats in their colonies.
Also while bats fly in patterns that look erratic to us, they are actually quite precise flyers (you’d have to be to catch mosquitoes!) so it is unlikely that they would run into you. It’s safe to have bats in your yard. If you ever did somehow touch a bat, go to the hospital immediately and ask for a rabies shot and you will be ok.
Dr Merlin Tuttle told me that you’re more likely to be killed by a dog or your spouse, so if you’re brave enough to get married and own a dog, you shouldn’t worry much about bats. Bats live all around us peacefully without us noticing.
I hope this helps :)
I came here because there were bats in the house, learnt something will change my perception
Wow that's sad.
Bats are awesome!
Anyone in Chicago who could use a hand tackling this important work please let me join the fight with you. So many atrocities need voices and hands to right our wrongs, & many of them have great numbers fighting for them. Bat's do not, I know, I keep looking. I care about this and want to put my work to this.
BladesWillxBleed Thanks so much, I’m glad you care about the bats! :) Two things you can do to help them are to share this video, so more people learn about their importance, and putting up a bat house to give them a safe home! (You can check out BatBnB.com for bat houses)
@@WanderingPathProductions I know. I have the house & encourage everyone to put them up. What I'm referring to is a meaningful way to assist field research in things such as white nose syndrome or tracking feeding patterns. Real boots to the ground work.
BladesWillxBleed Great! We need more people like you! :) Have you heard of the North American Bat monitoring program? www.usgs.gov/centers/fort/science/north-american-bat-monitoring-program-nabat?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects they’re using acoustic acoustic recordings to better quantity bat populations, and I thinkkk they might be accepting help from citizen scientists :) Check it out!
@@WanderingPathProductions Wow, thank you 1000x for that! The site isn't easy to navigate but there's contacts so I'll be on my way with this. Good thing you care to respond to people looking to help. We need more teams like you!
BladesWillxBleed Thanks so much! I’m really glad I was able to help! :) Best of luck moving forward with it! 🦇
wow
Thank u all
Why are quality bat houses So Expensive?! Even the ones that offer very little protection are pretty pricey.
The way God created and designed His earth is amazing.. How He designed it to function and work together in such an amazing way! How brilliant He is!
awwww so cute
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I love bats.
A big bat was flying around my basement last night, first time seen inside my Vermont home. Not sure what to do. Now, afraid to enter that space. It flew around the entire basement four times and then, disappeared. Likely hiding in rafters or left thru space it entered. Hmmmm
I’d recommend leaving windows open so it can hopefully get out by itself at night. Keep pets away - cats will try to catch them. Don’t ever touch a wild animal, if you see it again call a wildlife rescue center. :) Hope this helps… MerlinTuttle.org has some good resources as well 👍
We have too many people on the planet. We take the habitat away from every other living thing.
Well not in Australia
Our native fruit bats are everywhere
I love bats there amazing creatures and these creatures are not dangerous if you don’t bother you like the saying if you don’t bother it it won’t bother you. There cute too and I wanna protect them and rescue them
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I shared this per your request because a. I love bats and b. you didn't mention "global warming".
Make bat friendly architecture instead of modernist eyesores
on fruit bats depend thousands and thousands others species
I like bats :)
Ive saved alots of Bats in Israel 🇮🇱 especially the species European Free Tailed Bats ( Tadirida Teniotis) in Israel 🇮🇱 we have got about 37 species of Bats the Fruit Bat, and insect eating Bats
That’s awesome! Thanks so much for saving them!
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Makes me sad that ignorance is what it’s going to be the overall end for a lot of things because people are too stupid and lazy to actually go out and learn.
destroy first ,ask questions later ,ignore the answers….
Bats are also able to show us our "dark zone" and transform it...
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People owe bats help, and apologies home. Vaccination for bats
I use to think bats were disgusting until I watched this video. I guess I was the jerk all along.🤦♀️
Well I’m glad your opinion on them changed. Bats really are amazing animals
So bats stay up all night and get white nose syndrome? I know some people like that
They are important likes bees! The fluffy dogs with wings🥰🥰
That than. Ok bats eats blood and so?? all carnivorous eat meat with blood 😅 wat is the different, i dont understand they...
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sorry but it is ridiculous I would ask those people how much in your life you met bat??? perhaps and highly never so I dont understand that fear of bats,lol
The bats have to do with disease the same way as chimpanzee has to do with HIV virus mean sarcasm
Rabies is not a rare disease it exist today doesn't it??
channel 13 It does exist today, but only 1-2 people die from it a year in the USA, out of tens of millions. If someone gets bit by any wild animal, they should definitely get a rabies shot. As long as people aren’t handling or coming into direct contact with wild animals, they have little reason to fear. :)
@@WanderingPathProductions and that is correct
@@planetaustraliachannel Yes but less than 2 percent of all bats at max. On top of that a rabid bat will exclude themselves far from their colony and others and will die quickly and alone after they are infected with rabies. Even sick bats exclude themselves from the colony until they have recovered. Bats are harmless and are highly valuable. You are far more likely to be bitten by a rabid dog, raccoon or cat. A good rule of thumb is do not ever catch or handle bats especially if they are on the ground. Only trained, vaccinated and licensed individuals should have any contact with a bat. Oh and it is a federal offense to kill a bat or destroy their habitats. Automatic felony per bat. The government has ways to find out. Instead put up a bat house or two about fifteen feet high on a post or pole at the back of your property and enjoy being outside at night and not being raided by tons of mosquitoes and other pesky insects. It's a win win for all.
@@shawndubay4050 not talking about Bats just rabies in general
@@planetaustraliachannel oh ok cool. Yeah if I see an animal acting strangely or more aggressive than natural I keep a good distance or go inside if I can and possibly call animal control for my communities safety. Lots of kids, older folks and pets where I live. Gotta be safe.
Talking rubbish
Did the insects get fuel so that’s how you know it was 10tons