A tailed tailless bat ingesting nectar from a flower
Nathan Muchhala
Some flowers could have developed lengthy stems to make it simpler for echolocating bats to search out them.
Like bugs and hummingbirds, bats that feed on nectar are essential pollinators for a whole bunch of species of plant, together with mango and agave. Many of those crops have flowers that share distinctive traits to enchantment to bats reminiscent of opening at evening or giving off a musty odour. These flowers additionally are inclined to have lengthy stems that grasp down from branches or prolong from trunks.
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