The Pallas long - tongues bats (Glossophaga soricina) are an important pollinator in Central and South America and belong to a group of bats that are often called «whispering bats»
because many emit relatively quiet
echolocation calls to forage within dense vegetation.
Microbats, the group of bats that emit
echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny
because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that
echolocation evolved twice.