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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

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Rare Shark Spotted for the First Time in Panama’s Eastern Pacific

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