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Norbert's Mom

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That is the wettest sounding bat I've ever heard. :')

In fairness Australia does actually have "bat rabies" so you should still be careful handling bats, but it's a lot more controllable than normal rabies (which we do not have). This person clearly knows what they're doing though.

Well when you are entirely surrounded by water, you have somewhat of an advantage in keeping out anything a migratory bird can't carry across the ocean. We don't have rabies because we don't let it in. Eventually some fucking arsehole who thinks he's more important than our entire country will dodge quarantine for an infected pet or something but so far we've kept it out. We were varroa mite free for a really long time too until somebody fucked that up.

Okay so in the US, we have opossums, and one notable quality about them is that they are essentially rabies-resistant due to their internal body temp. I wonder if marsupials in general have the same traits.

If so, even accounting for eutherians like bats, water rats, and introduced animals, it could also makes it easier to isolate any potential case that is brought or drifts over.

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