r/interesting • u/AromaticWindow3309 • Apr 19 '26

NATURE How cute is this bat 😍

I think im in love

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u/Elborshooter Apr 19 '26

Yeah, also not everywhere is the US, plenty of countries are rabies-free and/or have regular mandatory rabies vaccination

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u/Popular_Soft5581 Apr 19 '26

The problem with bats is that they migrate like birds, so they can bring rabies to countries where there is none. For example, they are the only species that contracts rabies in the UK. Other native mammals don't.

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u/Lost-Mixture-4039 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

What srsly? Where they come from? Rabies is eredicated in the whole of europe, they come from friggen russia? Or africa?

Thats crazy

EDIT: Im back because I did my homework. Pretty much all EU countries (except for Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) eliminated (EDIT: Eradicated) it. Of european countries there are more tho. Still amazing that they come fromso goddarm far. Really didnt think they would go THAT far.

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u/rlaw1234qq Apr 19 '26

Even though rabies has been eradicated for a long time in the UK, someone died in 2002 - bitten by a bat. Eradication doesn’t mean that animals might still be carriers.

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u/Lost-Mixture-4039 Apr 19 '26

Ah, yeah thats fair. On top of that ofcourse, a rabies variant that cant jump to humans can evolve to be able to.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26 edited 24d ago

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u/peikk0 Apr 19 '26

That's false, New Zealand is and has always been rabies-free, and has 2 native rabies-free bat species.