http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/27/bats-10-essential-bat-facts-plus-photo-gallery/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Fri, 25 May 2012 16:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/27/bats-10-essential-bat-facts-plus-photo-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-62704 mike almond Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:36:09 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=4527#comment-62704 I didn't realize bats pollinated! This is especially good since I had heard that honeybees are disappearing (I guess due to insecticides or other reasons - I'm not sure why). I didn’t realize bats pollinated! This is especially good since I had heard that honeybees are disappearing (I guess due to insecticides or other reasons – I’m not sure why).

]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/27/bats-10-essential-bat-facts-plus-photo-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-62705 Jose Iriarte Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:40:58 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=4527#comment-62705 This is actually not true. Recent studies have shown that bats belong to a clade called Laurasiatheria, that includes moles, shrews, cetaceans, ungulates, carnivores, pangolines, etc. Primates, on the other hand, are more closely related to lagomorphs and rodents than to bats. A good review of the higher-level phylogeny of mammals is "The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution" BioEssays (2009) 31: 853-864 This is actually not true. Recent studies have shown that bats belong to a clade called Laurasiatheria, that includes moles, shrews, cetaceans, ungulates, carnivores, pangolines, etc. Primates, on the other hand, are more closely related to lagomorphs and rodents than to bats. A good review of the higher-level phylogeny of mammals is “The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution” BioEssays (2009) 31: 853-864

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