18 - Bloodsucking Fiends

When Animals Attack Podcast

English - October 31, 2019 19:56 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB - ★★★★ - 42 ratings
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In a special Halloween episode, Nilo & Jen discuss vampire bats. They trade bat attack stories, and discuss three films that have viciously maligned our comrades of the sky: Chosen Survivors (1974), Nightwing (1979), and Bats (1999).

Sources:

“Blood Buddies,” Radiolab (2010)

https://www.livescience.com/463-spate-vampire-bat-attacks.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bats-rabies-deforestation-brazil-urbanisation-diseases-humans-animals-transmission-between-species-a7768666.html

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/09/09/took-chunks-out-of-my-leg-rabid-bat-attacks-pennsylvania-man/

https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/30/man-dies-and-40-others-are-bitten-after-vampire-bats-attack-humans-in-brazil-6673199/

“Black Actors in Tech Roles in Action Movies,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iomT4G0mebU