Nectar Eating (Marglossus Minimum)

The shape of an animal’s mouth and teeth can tell you quite a bit about what it eats. Even though the two distinct groups of bats eating fruit and nectar are very distantly related (they diverged at least 30 million years ago), they share characteristics that make them appear closely related at first glance. For example, nectar-feeding bats have long snouts and tongues in order to drink nectar from flowers.