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Vampire bats help unravel mystery of mammalian sense of smell | Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community
Foraging in the dark–integrating echolocation and smell to find a meal – Integrative Organismal Biology
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Bat Conservation International on Twitter: "If you visit #Jamaica, #WaveAWing to a Jamaican fruit bat! These #bats use vision and smell to find fruit! https://t.co/F9QARdZwPX" / Twitter
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Although most microbats use echolocation to find their food, Spectral Bats (Vampyrum spectrum) seem to locate prey using their sense of smell or the distress calls of small bats. They can take
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By dark of night, how do bats smell their way to fruit?- All Images | NSF - National Science Foundation
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