Evolution of bat wings and calls through ‘foraging syndromes’ allows diversity to flourish
Frontiers
DECEMBER 8, 2022
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Egyptian slit-faced bats, Nycteris thebaica. In a new study, scientists show that the wing shape and the echolocation frequency of bats are tightly linked across species. This pattern could only be identified because the of the large dataset in the present study, which allowed the authors to look beyond the effect of bat family on these traits.
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