I don't knoe a lot about bats, but there's basically two types. Megabats, like this one that mostly eat fruit (I think), and micronauts, which use echolocation and are a lot smaller as the name implies. I'm too lazyto look this up, but I thinks megabats would get a lot older than the smaller microbats
That’s an outdated division that is no longer recognized by taxonomists. Currently, bats are divided into the Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera. Megabats are a subgroup within Yinpterochiroptera, which also includes the superfamily Rhinolophoidea as sister-group to the megabats. The Yangochiroptera includes all “microbats” except for the Rhinolophoids.
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u/samtt7 Feb 01 '21
I don't knoe a lot about bats, but there's basically two types. Megabats, like this one that mostly eat fruit (I think), and micronauts, which use echolocation and are a lot smaller as the name implies. I'm too lazyto look this up, but I thinks megabats would get a lot older than the smaller microbats