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Fruit bats navigate with internal maps

Egyptian fruit bats use an internal, landmark-based map to navigate their local area, a new study has found.

The discovery was made by attaching tiny, ten-gram GPS units to individual bats and tracking their movements over many nights.

The discovery suggests the bats possess navigational abilities rivaling those of homing pigeons.

Read more at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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