A banana story, a bat story, a cool story. 🍌 🦇 ✨ Bats are extraordinarily important pollinators of ecologically and economically important trees and plants worldwide - including wild bananas. All commercial bananas originated from bat-pollinated ancestors in SE Asia. Commercial bananas in the U.S. don’t have seeds, so they don’t need to be pollinated, but the wild bat-pollinated bananas remain key sources of genes for improving disease resistance and new varieties. Except where protected, bat
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