These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination ... Much like the hummingbird, the fruit bat prefers pendulous flowers so that it can fly in place while feeding.
The driving force behind the bat-flower partnership is not romance but the primary business of life: survival and reproduction. Trading nectar for pollination is a delicate transaction ...
The endangered Mexican long-nosed bat has been discovered in Arizona via the utilization of citizen science from residents in ...
Dubbed the "Bat Man of Mexico," Medellín convinced agave farmers to set aside part of their land to allow the plants there to flower and be pollinated. He also worked with a nonprofit to ...