A tailed tailless bat consuming nectar from a flower
Nathan Muchhala
Some flowers might have advanced lengthy stems to make it simpler for echolocating bats to search out them.
Like bugs and hummingbirds, bats that feed on nectar are necessary pollinators for lots of 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 night time or giving off a musty odour. These flowers additionally are inclined to have lengthy stems that cling down from branches or lengthen from trunks.
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