Alice
08/26/2023 (Sat) 20:38
No.1796
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Oh cool, so you also have a Myotis species!
Yeah, bats are very fascinting. These guys live for 20+ years which is massive for their size. Some Myotis bats even live to be as old as you or host - around 40 years. They have elite DNA repair mechanisms, their telomeres don't shorten significantly with age and they're barely affected by cancer.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao0926