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Bats to the rescue

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Peters' wrinkle-lipped bat. Courtesy of Adrià López-Baucells

A new study shows that bats are giving Madagascar’s rice farmers a vital pest control service by feasting on plagues of insects. And this, a Cambridge zoologist believes, can ease the pressure on farmers to turn rainforest into fields.

Peters' wrinkle-lipped bat.

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