How far will the bats take us?
Audio 48:30
The horseshoe bat horseshoe bat.
(Illustrative image) Getty Images / Marko Konig
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
Why and how are our human lives always (and more than ever) intertwined with those of fascinating bats?
For better and not just for worse ...
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Let's take a look at bats and not only as supposed reservoirs of the Covid or Ebola virus, but also and above all, because these strange flying mammals that live upside down, have always fascinated our humanity, occupying a place except in many cultures.
Totemic animals of the Australian aborigines, rebellious spirit in the Sahel, reviving in the Philippines or vampires in Europe, bats indeed seem to transgress all our symbolic and physiological borders.
What also fascinate researchers of all disciplines, starting with naturalists, but also ecologists, microbiologists and even anthropologists.
Because bats, with climate change and the destruction of their habitats, are approaching us for the worst (health risks and species extinction), but also for the better as we will discover with our guests ...
With
Frédéric Keck
(historian of philosophy, director of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology) and
Arnaud Morvan
(anthropologist, specialist in human-animal relations) for the book
Les Chauves-Mouse, at the borders between species
,
published by CNRS Éditions.
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