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Carollia perspicillata

Bat Salad: First Record of Bats Eating Entire Leaves and Not Spitting Them Out

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves

Spix's disk-winged bats inside their leaf tube

Listen Up! Hungry Bats Emit Food Calls to Family and Friends

Annette Aiello

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Dr. Ruth Bennett holding Summer Tanager

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Tree Frog

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Bat lands on a speaker to collect a baitfish reward

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Ricardo Moreno on the field

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Acanthoctenus manauara female.

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Listen Up! Hungry Bats Emit Food Calls to Family and Friends

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