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various tribes. As of 2018, 197
species of
megabat had been described. The
leading theory of the
evolution of
megabats has been
determined primarily by genetic...
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Chiroptera (bats). Bats have long been
differentiated into
Megachiroptera (
megabats) and Microchiroptera,
based on
their size, the use of
echolocation by the...
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finding prey, but
megabats apart from
those in the
genus Rousettus do not. Accordingly,
megabats have a well-developed eyesight.
Megabats have a claw on...
- the
south Pacific. They are
among the few
megabats capable of echolocation, and the only
genus of
megabats known to use
vocal echolocation.
Genus Rousettus...
- is a
suborder of the Chiroptera,
which includes taxa
formerly known as
megabats and five of the
microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae...
- In
evolutionary biology, the
flying primate hypothesis is that
megabats, a
subgroup of
Chiroptera (also
known as
flying foxes), form an
evolutionary sister...
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spread the uropatagium.
Unlike microbats,
megabats lack the m.
calcaneocutaneous muscle for
calcar control;
megabats do
share the
other two
muscles for calcar...
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longer within the genus, it has many
physical similarities to
Pteropus megabats. It is one of the
largest bat
species in the world,
weighing up to 1.4 kg...
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Eidolon (known as the palm bat) is a
genus of
megabats in the
family Pteropodidae. It
contains two species:
Madagascan fruit bat,
Eidolon dupreanum Straw-coloured...
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primate hypothesis,
which was
based on the
similarity between the
brains of
megabats and primates.
Special emphasis was
placed on the visual,
auditory and somatosensory...
