Sunday, March 25, 2012

TOOBED NOSED BAT

Tube-Nosed Bat
This bat with yellow ears and nose, reminiscent of Yoda from Star Wars, was discovered in Papua-New Guinea. Though seen on previous expeditions, the bat has yet to be formally documented as a new species, or even named. Like other fruit bats, though, it disperses seeds from the fruit in its diet, perhaps making the flying mammal crucial to its tropical rain forest ecosystem

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