Some Bats Obtain Nectar Using Conveyor Belt-like Tongue (1 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Some Bats Obtain Nectar Using Conveyor Belt-like Tongue (1 of 9)

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GIF: This gif relates to the research by Tschapka et al. and shows a bat obtaining nectar through a novel tongue pumping mechanism. The gif will play when in a suitable platform, like Twitter. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 25, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Tschapka at University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Nectar uptake in bats using a pumping-tongue mechanism."

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Tschapka <i>et al., Science Advances</a> (2015), AAAS/Carla Schaffer

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