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You've made an interesting counterargument that I've never come across before. I'm purely speculating here, but maybe the diseases in question (rabies, nipah) a
by jollyllama 1y ago
You've made an interesting counterargument that I've never come across before. I'm purely speculating here, but maybe the diseases in question (rabies, nipah) are otherwise so deadly that they'd normally just kill the host, but in bats, they linger on. All that to say, that bats aren't necessarily hosting more diseases relative to other animals, but they harbor diseases at the more lethal end of the virulence to transmission tradeoff spectrum.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoWhat do you mean, counterargument? A "counterargument" can only exist relative to an argument. So far there hasn't been an argument. To recap: 1. "A big reason bats carry a lot of diseases is that they have large temperature fluctuations." 2. "How does the one lead to the other?" 3. "Diseases can't tolerate temperature fluctuations." That's gibberish, not an argument. Combining two random (or in this case, contradictory) sentences doesn't make an argument.