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Bats and pepper plants coevolved to help each other survive
Researchers have discovered how bats, such as this short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia castanea), and pepper plants in Central America have coevolved to help each other survive.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DEB 1456375, DEB 1456455, IOS 1354159 and DEB 1442142.]
Learn more in the University of Washington news story 'More pepper, please': New study analyzes role of scent compounds in the coevolution of bats and pepper plants.
(Date image taken: 2017; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb 23, 2022)
Credit: Photo by David Villalobos Chaves
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