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How Bat Moms Find Their Babies in Crowded, Dark Caves | Nat Geo Wild
In a crowded dark cave, “tequila” bat moms rely on their sense of smell to find their babies. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so wild, anything can happen. Nat Geo Wild is the network all about animals from National Geographic, where every story is an adventure and your imagination is allowed to run wild. Get More Nat Geo Wild: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILD Facebook: http://bit.ly/NGWFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/NGWTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NGWInstagram Searching for your child in a crowd can be stressful enough, but imagine trying to find them in a crowded, pitch-black cave. That’s not a problem for these “tequila” bat moms since they rely on their sense of smell to find their babies. The video show a mother bat moving over a cluster of babies to find her own. As soon as she’s in the cluster, the pup becomes agitated and directs its body to her. Once the mother sniffs out her pup, she licks it until it's latches onto her nipple. National Geographic explorer Begoña Iñarritu studied these bats in the caves of the Sonoran Desert. Iñarritu suspects the pups may also recognize their mother, but it's unclear when newborns begin to recognize the scent of their mothers. Read more in "How 'Tequila Bats' Find Their Pups" https://ift.tt/2IB9ksl How Bat Moms Find Their Babies in Crowded, Dark Caves | Nat Geo Wild https://youtu.be/eaLnK4jc1nA Nat Geo Wild https://www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild

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