Bats

Coronavirus Animal Scapegoat Coloring Pages (4 of 4)

Bats are the only mammal that can fly. That’s impressive because flying is really hard. How hard? Try flapping your arms 17 times in a second. Imagine doing that from dusk to dawn. Your arms would be guano.

Where as a human would have debilitating muscle inflammation, bats don’t. This is because the bat has a go-along-to-get-along immune system. Their bodies don’t so much fight infection, as tolerate it.

A bat could be infected with rabies, SARS, MERS, Ebola AND coronaviruses–and still hang 10 with its bat buds back at the roost.

Maybe the answer to defeating COVID-19 is in the bat’s quirky biology–researchers are looking… In the meantime, I’m working at doing faster jumping jacks.