It turns out I have more in common with my favorite animal than I thought. NOTE: Usually I find an article and then regurgitate it into the cheeping mouths of our readers in my own words. In this case, I kind of like how the article was written in the first place, so I'm just going to link to it..
Great pic.
Thanks to NVDH for uncovering this one.
P.S. Isn't it hilarious when you go to make a tag called "alcohol" for a piece on the blog, but that tag has already been created? Clearly we've covered this topic before.
Comments
Aye aye lemurs, dolphins, cave swifts, insectivorous micro-bats all echolocate, but I've never heard of any fruit bats which echolocate.
Why test a drunk arboreal frugivore for echolocation?
Posted by: DD | February 28, 2010 1:07 AM
Ben, you should invent a new fruit drink called arboreal frugivore. It should have rum in it.
Posted by: ym | March 1, 2010 3:43 PM
What if I put ground up fruit bat in it? Yummsers!
Posted by: Ben | March 3, 2010 9:03 PM
Old world Fruit bats do not echolocate, but the New World species are a separate lineage and my understanding is that they evolved from echolocating insectivorous species. I think the orginal paper may be on PloS.
Posted by: Alan | March 5, 2010 1:50 PM
pretty tricky camera work, plus a horse trained to flatbed be dragged over him. Or else just drugged. Dramatic
Posted by: sikiş | March 20, 2010 2:24 PM