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Fruit bats help in the re-growth of rainforests where slash and burn farming takes place. These bats deposit large amounts of seeds in their droppings as they fly to and from trees ... At one time fruit farmers thought that fruit bats only ate ripe fruit but recent studies have shown that they eat more over ripe fruit.
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Adaptations: Fruit bats, like other bats, have very long, webbed fingers that serve as wings. Fruit bats also have very good senses of smell and sight (contrary to the myth that all bats are blind). ... Predators: Humans sometimes eat bats.
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Each night, tropical fruit-eating bats ingest large amounts of secondary plant compounds with their food. This may become particularly problematic for pregnant or lactating bat mothers, since secondary plant compounds may damage the embryo or the juvenile ... “Don’t eat the green parts of tomatoes, cut the green off...
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"Don't eat the green parts of tomatoes, cut the green off the potatoes." Any child would know that eating these parts of vegetables is a bad idea. The reason behind this is that they contain secondary plant compounds which may have detrimental effects on the consumer. ... Bats include more than 1200 species, ... Seedless Fruit...
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In a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE, researchers from the Berlin Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Boston University and Cornell University, found evidence that fruit-eating bats take up large amounts of mineral rich water and clay from so-called mineral licks to detoxify the secondary plant ...
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“Don’t eat the green parts of tomatoes, cut the green off ... Each night, tropical fruit-eating bats ingest large amounts of secondary plant compounds with their food. This may become particularly problematic for pregnant or lactating bat mothers, since secondary plant compounds may damage the embryo or the juvenile.
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