Lin-Fa Wang , an expert in infectious diseases at the University of Duke Medicine in Singapore , who led the study of bats in several centers ; This information may explain why bats are relatively free of the .
disease , That extends the life as exceptional compared to other mammals of similar size, such as rats.
The results of this study - which was attended by researchers from China, Denmark , Australia and America , in the journal Science, which was recently published. And other mammals compared to the same size bats live longer , between 20 and 40 years, while the average age of rats between two and three years. Surprisingly, it was found that Wang and his colleagues that the rapid evolution of genes that gives the immune system these supernatural ability allows bats to fly.
Among the more than five thousand species of mammal on the planet bats is characterized by its ability to fly for as long as possible, because some of these species can fly more than a thousand meters per night