Can you kill bats and make them extinct?

Judging from the appearance of bats, people will definitely think they are pests. And we all know that bats carry more than 100 viruses, such as rabies virus, Marburg virus and Ebola virus. 20 14 Ebola outbreak in west Africa, with 7373 deaths. After the outbreak, relevant investigations showed that the source of the epidemic was a boy who was bitten by a bat before his death. The boy died only four days after being infected with Ebola, and then his sister and his grandmother developed symptoms of infection and died soon. People attending the funeral spread the virus.

Since bats carry viruses and may infect people, why not get rid of bats from this world? Why don't we kill bats?

Since it is said to destroy a species, it must be said that it is feasible and the consequences after extinction. Let's not discuss the feasibility. Let's talk about what role bats have played in this ecological circle, or simply talk about what role bats have played in the development of human society.

The economic value and ecological value of bats mainly include these:

Fruit bats are ideal seed spreaders for some fruit trees. Some plants can't thrive without the small animals that sow for them. Fruit bats like to eat fruit very much. While eating fruit, they also helped the fruit trees a lot, taking the seeds far away. Some people may ask, can the seeds germinate after being digested by fruit bats? Tell you here, not only germination, but also germination rate as high as 100%. Someone has done experiments. He directly took the fruit seeds out for culture, and the germination rate was only 100%, while all the seeds taken out of bat droppings germinated. Fruit bats can spread not only seeds, but also pollen. It is understood that about 70% of wild tropical fruits rely on bats as pollinators and seed spreaders.

Bats are the bane of pests. Here, we should actually name bats. Bats are not pests, but beneficial insects. Their ability to eat pests is better than that of pesticides. In the big family of bats, insect-eating bats are good at eating pests. We know that animals such as moths, mosquitoes, some beetles, flies, scarabs and so on. It is harmful to human agriculture and life. Insect-eating bats specialize in insects. Insect-eating bats mainly prey on leaves, air and ground. A bat can eat more than 600 mosquitoes in an hour. About 20 million bats live in a huge cave in Arizona, USA. They can eat them in one night. A bat weighing only 20g can eat more than 200 pests bigger than mosquitoes in one night. It can be seen that bats have made outstanding contributions to pest control.

Bat is the source of spermatorrhea sand of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is not a magic medicine. It is not the sand that we literally see shining at night. In fact, wet dream sand is bat feces.

From the above, we can know that bats are very useful. They are beneficial insects, which are beneficial to human production and life. So let's talk about feasibility first Is it feasible to kill bats? How difficult is it? Bats are distributed all over the world, except for the North and South Poles and some islands in the ocean, which are mainly distributed in the tropics. Bats are the second largest category of mammals after rodents, so it is difficult to kill them.

Therefore, no matter from the feasibility consideration or the status and function of bats in the ecological environment, bats can not be eliminated, but should be protected.