A little guy whose tongue automatically squeezes juice
author:The flying fart in the air
When the epidemic broke out, I don't know if you still remember the big discussion about the virus host back then? A bat's self-report became popular in the circle of friends: Don't eat wild meat again!
(1) The hammerhead fruit bat is the largest bat in Africa, with a wingspan of up to 0.6-1 meter......
So......
(2) Unlike other fruit bats, in order to obtain more energy, "hammerhead fruit bats prefer to eat juice rather than pulp", and they have a tongue that is very suitable for "juice extraction".
(below), the pulp was only spit out near the original tree, so the hammerhead fruit bat was not considered a qualified seed spreader
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▲ Their intestines are also adapted to digest fruit juices
(3) The reason why they are called hammerhead fruit bats is that their cow-like head also looks like a hammer, and in fact it is their unique resonance box (located in the dotted line in the picture below), through which the male can attract the female with a loud call...... Because of its grotesque appearance, its species name "Monstrosus" is a small monster
meaning.
(4) At present, the more credible Ebola transmission route is the original host hammerhead fruit bat→ the intermediate host gorilla or chimpanzee or deer → human, or directly the hammerhead fruit bat → human