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. 2018 Sep 26;4(9):eaat2980. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat2980

Fig. 1. Neotropical hummingbird and nectarivorous bat species converged on hovering while foraging from flowers.

Fig. 1

(A) A long-billed hermit (Phaethornis longirostris) hovers in front of a lobster claw (Heliconia), and a Geoffroy’s tailless bat (Anoura geoffroyi) sticks its head in a ring-gentian (Symbolanthus) to drink nectar and eat pollen (illustrations based on photos from C. Jiménez and N. Muchhala). (B) We studied hummingbird species (N = 17), nectarivorous bat species (N = 2), and frugivorous bat species (N = 1) living in the same habitat in Coto Brus, Costa Rica (species acronyms explained in table S1).