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Surprising study of bats that pollinate cactus flowers sheds light on coevolution of plants and pollinators. 
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If a vampire bat fails to find a victim during the night, it will begin licking the wings and lips of a chosen colony member. The animals then lock mouths, while the successful hunter starts vomiting warm blood. If such sharing did not take place, scientists estimate that more than eighty per cent of adult vampire bats would die of starvation every year.
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Bats map the world around them using echolocation. New research shows that an echo's strength doesn’t tell bats the size of objects, and instead they use sonar aperture.
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Though they evolved separately over millions of years in different worlds of darkness, bats and toothed whales use surprisingly similar acoustic behavior to locate, track, and capture prey using echolocation, the biological equivalent of sonar.
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Imagine listening to music while carrying on a conversation with friends. This type of multi-tasking is fairly easy to do, right?
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Researchers are using a unique method to interpret and manipulate the pings and echoes that bats, dolphins, and mole rats use for learning about their environments and capturing their prey.
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