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Coffee Break: Bats!

Bites from bats are an increasingly common way for humans to contract rabies.
Bites from bats are an increasingly common way for humans to contract rabies.Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture

by Anna Weggel

March 29, 2019

If you've been listening to the show this morning, you've heard Jill mention "white nose syndrome" - a fungal disease that can be fatal to hibernating bats and over that past 10 years has been decimating bat populations.

Researchers are looking for ways to slow the disease but in the meantime, let's put together a set of songs inspired by this news story.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bat songs or bat bands do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

Have an idea for a Coffee Break topic? Submit your idea for a future theme and browse past Coffee Breaks in our archive. Or, when you register for a Minnesota Public Radio account, you can send requests via Alexa, too Just say "Alexa, ask The Current to play Song by Artist" e.g. "Alexa, ask The Current to play Left of the Dial by The Replacements."

Songs played

Bat For Lashes - Bat's Mouth
Spider John Koerner - The Leather-Winged Bat
Bobby Valentin - Batman's Boogaloo
Prince - Batdance
The Bats - Bells
The Aquabats - Stuck in a Movie
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead