Fruit bats are the only bats that can't (and never could) use echolocation. Now we're closer to knowing why
- Written by Camilo López-Aguirre, PhD Candidate, UNSW
ShutterstockScientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery.
All bats — apart from the fruit bats of the family Pteropodidae (also called flying foxes) — can “echolocate” by using high-pitched sounds to navigate at night.
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