When wild Egyptian fruit bats set out at night to forage in Israel’s Hula Valley, they do so using advanced spatial memory and a flexible cognitive mapping of the fruit trees and other goals scattered in their foraging area. They seldom search randomly and their foraging patterns cannot be explained by simpler navigation mechanisms, a research team headed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Professor Ran Nathan has found.
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Source: Phys.org