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Nichole Sobecki

A yellow-winged bat rests in a biologist’s hand in Uganda. Eighteen of the 19 mammals that live proportionally longer than humans based on body size are bats. (The naked mole rat is the other.) Bats fascinate scientists because they carry deadly viruses but are not affected by them.

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