{"id":5250,"date":"2017-01-19T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:47:11","slug":"some-bats-can-diversify-their-diets-with-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/some-bats-can-diversify-their-diets-with-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Some bats can diversify their diets with fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5251\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5251\" class=\"wp-image-5251\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128938_web-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Long-fingered bat swooping to catch a fish. (Image by Antton Alberdi and Ostaizka Aizpurua)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128938_web-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128938_web-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128938_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-fingered bat swooping to catch a fish.<br \/> <em>(Image by Antton Alberdi and Ostaizka Aizpurua)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Long-fingered bats that normally have an exclusively insect-based diet may catch fish in certain regions, a new study found. Researchers studied two groups of long-fingered bats &#8211; those known to catch fish and others that were exclusively insectivorous &#8211; to see their reactions to insect-like and fish-like prey. Although both groups could attack the fish-like targets, the bats that were used to fishing performed significantly better. These results suggest that all long-fingered bats are capable of catching fish, but those who have had to feed on fish in their regions hone their technique for better efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ostaizka Aizpurua, Antton Alberdi, Joxerra Aihartza, Inazio Garin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Ostaizka Aizpurua, University of Copenhagen, Email: ostaizka.aizpurua@snm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0167164\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published in<em> PLOS One<\/em> on December 14, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-fingered bats that normally have an exclusively insect-based diet may catch fish in certain regions, a new study found. Researchers studied two groups of long-fingered bats &#8211; those known to catch fish and others that were exclusively insectivorous &#8211; to see their reactions to insect-like and fish-like prey. Although both groups could attack the fish-like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2806,170,2807],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bats","tag-biodiversity","tag-long-fingered-bat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128938_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1mG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}