6 ways bats are surprisingly human

Bat Week officially begins today. It’s the one week where Earth’s only winged mammals get top billing. Often associated with disease, vampires, and other generally unpleasant things, bats are actually important pollinators and play critical roles in our ecosystem.“They’re just so cool and so interesting. During first forays into bat studies, it was just one question after another,” Rachel Page, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, tells Po