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Digest: New insight into sensory trade-off in phyllostomid bats
Quentin Martinez1, Arthur Naas1
1Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM), CNRS, Université de Montpellier (UM), Montpellier, UMR 5554, 34095, France.
Abstract:
Do the relative size of the olfactory bulb, cochlea, and orbit correlate with diet in phyllostomid bats? Hall et al. (2021) found that the degree of frugivory is positively correlated with the relative size of the olfactory bulb and the orbit. The degree of animalivory is negatively correlated with the relative size of the olfactory bulb and the orbit. Finally, the degree of nectarivory is negatively correlated with the relative size of the cochlea.
