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The bat that came out of the dark

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Postby mikepepler » Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:20 pm

"A tiny bat living in central Italy has emerged from the dark and started hunting by day.


This switch in hunting strategy is highly unusual among insectivorous bats, which routinely hunt at twilight or by night to avoid predators.


Yet a small group of soprano pipistrelles has been spotted brazenly flying by day in a mountain canyon within an Italian beech forest. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8254000/8254222.stm


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