Why greater mouse-tailed bats have unusually long tails

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Researchers have long wondered whether these bats might use their unusually long tail as a ‘sensor’ to navigate the inside of caves. Intrigued by this question, a team of researchers from designed two experiments to put the bats’ tails to the test.

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