Behavioral innovation and genomic novelty are associated with the exploitation of a challenging dietary opportunity by an avivorous bat

Summary: Foraging on nocturnally migrating birds is one of the most challenging foraging tasks in the animal kingdom. Only three bat species (e.g., Ia io) known to date can prey on migratory birds. However, how these bats have exploited this challenging dietary niche remains unknown. Here, we demons...

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Main Authors: Lixin Gong, Yang Geng, Zhiqiang Wang, Aiqing Lin, Huan Wu, Lei Feng, Zhenglanyi Huang, Hui Wu, Jiang Feng, Tinglei Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222012457