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The ability to fly and locate food in the dark is what has made the bat’s morphology and function so special, from its size and metabolism to the shape of its sensory organs. The leaf-nosed bat’s nasal outgrowths, the horseshoe bat’s peculiar physiognomy, and the large eyes of the flying foxes are all examples of how bats have become adapted to a life in dim light.
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Eklöf, J., Rydell, J. (2017). Flight and Morphology. In: Bats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66538-2_2
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