[Right Wing Professor]

It has greatly enriched our picture: rather than the long-held view that vitamin C is required in the diet of guinea pig, monkeys and man, we now see that it is required also by bats, at least some fish, and many birds;

I seriously doubt this; when I get back to my office on Wednesday I'll see if I can refute it.

Any organism that has collagen in its joints needs vitamin C. You can't get adequate amounts of vitamin C from a diet of insects. Unless the bats in question are all fruit bats, they make vitamin C, and that's got nothing to do with evolution.

[Heartlander]

What happens if you can’t? What does it mean?