This bat uses its tail as a blind stick

Many bat species have been given a considerably shortened tail in the course of evolution. It often forms the middle support of an extra fly skin between the hind legs of the animals. With other species there is not much left than a lump.

The Egyptian Kladneus belongs to the bats with a fully -fledged tail, a long worm of 4 to 6 cm., At least twice as long as its hind legs. It is not for nothing that the species is called in English Mouse-Tailed Bator the bat with the mouse tail.

That tail is not just frills, Proven biologists from the University of Tel Aviv In a series of tests. For some time there has been the suspicion that the Klapneus uses its tail as a blind pocket when it moves backwards through narrow rock splits.

The biologists had a holly fuck in the lab crawling through a maze, a flat box with obstacles. Bats in which the tail was eliminated by a local anesthesia was significantly over the end. In another test, the biologists could show that the animals with their tail can recognize the structure of a narrow passage.

Incidentally, the Egyptian Klapneus is probably not the only bat that uses this trick: biologists from the European bulk bat are also a touch instrument.

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