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  • Fraternizing vampire bats share 'social microbiomes'

    Nov 16, 2021 8:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    colony of bats. Photo by Uwe Schmidt via Creative Commons license

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    Study finds that the gut microbiomes of bats became more similar the more often they engaged in social behaviors with one another - such behaviors as huddling together for warmth or grooming themselves and their neighbors.