Bats, Bones, and Biology

Chapters

1. 0:00 Intro
2. 2:18 Do bats drink blood and what do they eat? [vampire bats]
3. 4:11 Bat size. [Bumblebee and Flying Fox bats]
4. 5:29 Are bats blind?
5. 5:53 How do bats navigate at night? [Echo location]
6. 7:05 Ultrasonic sounds.
7. 7:31 Listen to two bat call sounds.
8. 9:34 Can other animals hear bat calls?
9. 9:48 Why do we need bats? What would the world be like without bats?
10. 10:25 How many kinds of bats are there in the world?
11. 10:33 One of the stranger lookin bats.
12. 11:08 What's different about bat skeletons and why are they the only mammals that fly?
13. 13:15 What do our bones do for us?
14. 15:17 What does a paleontologist do?
15. 16:00 What's the largest bone or skeleton you've studied?
16. 16:46 What is the largest bone of any animal?
17. 17:14 What is the smallest bone of any animal?
18. 18:13 Do we have a funny bone?
19. 19:44 Easy way to remember how many bones are in the adult human skeleton.
20. 20:17 What happened to all the extra bones we have when we are born? [Cartilage and bone - connective tissue]
21. 22:35 What is cartilage and what is bone?
22. 23:26 What does it take to have really strong bones? [milk - dairy - vitamin D]
23. 24:04 When did you first know you wanted to be a scientist?
24. 26:15 What would you do if you could not be a biologist?
25. 27:25 What advice do you have for future biologists?
26. 29:38 Sign-off [Bat article, yo-yo skeleton coloring page]