Rainforest plant developed sonar dish to attract pollinating bats
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 03:31
in Mathematics & Economics
How plants sound as well as how they look helps them to attract pollinators, a new study has found. Researchers discovered that a rainforest vine, pollinated by bats, has evolved dish-shaped leaves with such conspicuous echoes that nectar-feeding bats can find its flowers twice as fast by echolocation.