Urban areas benefit bats

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Why some animals defy the odds to thrive in urban areas

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Some species of the same species that live in cities and the countryside are behaving differently.

Over half of people worldwide now live in urban areas, and cities and towns are getting bigger.

A study from Tel Aviv University found that Egyptian fruit bats living in urban parts of Israel gave birth two and a half weeks earlier than rural populations.

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