Urban environments prompt fruit bats to diversify diet, study says

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Washington DC (UPI) Jul 19, 2021

Urbanization leads fruit bats to adjust foraging strategies and diversify diets, a new study found. Tel Aviv University researchers found fruit bats explored more when foraging in urban environments, which have a higher diversity of fruit trees than rural ones, and ate more types of fruits, according to the study published Monday in BMC Biology. Furthermore, researchers found tha

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