First sightings of lek and courtship behavior in wrinkle-faced bats
Published Date: 11/11/2020
Source: phys.org
Wrinkle-faced bats not only have the most convoluted faces of any bat species, the males also have a flap of furry white skin they can pull over their lower faces, not unlike the face masks people wear. In a new report published in PLOS ONE, Smithsonian researchers and colleagues describe the first observations of courtship in this species.