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Award of Excellence
Christian Ziegler National Geographic Magazine
"Tropical Bats - biodiversity in action"
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This fruit-eating bat is taking off after it grabbed
and ripped off a ripe fig fruit from a branch. The bat will now fly to a
feeding roost where it will eat the fig by squeezing all sugary liquid out of
it. The dry flesh and all the seeds will be dropped to the ground - and maybe
a new fig will sprout there one day. Fruit eating bats play an important role
as seed dispersers in most tropical forests around the world. (Taken in large
flight cage of the research teeam)
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