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The tube-lipped nectar bat: a highly-specialized pollinator with a tongue 150% of its body length

One rare plant, Centropogon nigricans, is pollinated exclusively by this bat due to its hard-to-reach nectar.

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Well it's that or Beavis... which I like because it means that Butt-Head bat must be out there somewhere.

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This would be like a human with a 9-foot tongue (roughly 270 cm).

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