SAT READING Q45 - HARD - Moonlight intensity inhibits activity of the greater short-nosed fruit bat

SAT READING Q45 - HARD - Moonlight intensity inhibits activity of the greater short-nosed fruit bat
Vadamalai Elangovan and Ganapathi Marimuthu showed that high moonlight intensity inhibits the activity of the greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx), a finding explicable in terms of benefits and costs: greater lunar intensity may not enable the bats to increase foraging success enough to offset the higher chance of detection by predatory owls or hawks. Though many other nocturnal mammals respond to lunar intensity variations similarly to greater short-nosed fruit bats, mongoose lemurs (Eulemur mongoz) display the opposite pattern, as their heavy reliance on visual foraging results in a different balance of reward and risk.