Untamed Americas - Tube-Lipped Nectar Bat

Untamed Americas : STARTS SUN JUN 10 at 9P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com...

NatGeo cameras capture this unusually graceful bat for the first time ever.

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[محمد التميمي]

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[r0ckt3hc4sb4h]

The bat ladies must be pretty happy know what I'm sayin'?

[ShadowWolfTJC]

I wonder, if these bats, or hummingbirds of the night as I'd like to call them, manage to survive long enough to evolve, would they eventually grow anteater-like snouts to reach deeper into the plants?

[Haider Haytar]

سبحان الله

[tastysweetapple]

bat's live way longer then rats.

[Boney Nerd]

makes you wonder about evolution.. how can a system based on mutations and natural selection happen to pick a bat, and a flower so uniquely working in a symbiotic relationship. so crazy

[meatballeatter]

Bats live way longer then beats because all the co2 they get.

[XOTheCrystalStarrOX]

That's the cutest little bat I've ever seen :-)

[mick0259]

SLUSHIE?! ANY1? ;)

[frellthat]

The two species have likely evolved together.

[igotbored44]

There is a large list of similar bats which also have tongues like that, so yes, the bat evolved first.

[EspinosaJoey]

How can the narrator say that "necessity is the mother of evolution," and use this as an example? Later in the video, he says that the plant would not exist without the bat. So, did the bat's tongue evolve before the plant existed? If so, why?