EE BIOL 169Biology of Bats: The True Superheroes
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Comprising 20 percent of all mammals and inhabiting all but one continent, bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight. Bats can also echolocate, hibernate, live longer than humans, and harbor viruses but not get sick. This allows bats to be reservoirs for many viruses that can cause zoonotic diseases in humans, including Ebola and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Exploration of evolution, anatomy, physiology, immunology, longevity, and conservation of bats. Focus on how scientists use bats as model system to address key questions in ecology, evolution, and human health.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: Life Sciences 7B.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 169
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.