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Enabling the high metabolic flux required to fly. As the only flying mammals, bats have the highest metabolism among mammals while also being more biologically
by ak217 5y ago
Enabling the high metabolic flux required to fly. As the only flying mammals, bats have the highest metabolism among mammals while also being more biologically compatible with us compared to e.g. birds.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoA rather suboptimal evolutionary path - birds are way better adapted to flight at lower cost but then again they had a 100 million year head start (theropod dinosaurs) compared to bats.