Got a sweet tooth? 🍬 🦇 After 20 hours of sleep per day, fruit bats wake up for 4 hours to gorge on fruit before going back to the roost. Fruit bats thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit daily without developing diabetes, obesity or cancer. 🧪 A team of scientists have discovered how fruit bats have evolved to prevent their sugar-rich diet from becoming harmful, leading to potential solutions for millions of people with diabetes. 💬 Nadav Ahituv, co-senior author of the

Happy Bat appreciation day! 🦇 Meet the Jamaican fruit-eating bat! These adorable frugivores eat figs and other tropical forest fruits along with pollen, nectar, and a few insects, and the pulpy layer around some nuts. When they carry the fruits away to eat them, they drop the nuts which disperses the seeds for future trees. They can be found in a variety of habitats from central Mexico to Paraguay and Brazil, and also the Bahamas, Antilles, Trinidad, Tobago, and Key West, Florida. Bats play a c

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