A seba bat—a tiny bat in South America—will eat as many as sixty thousand tiny seeds per night. The seed distribution of a single colony of seba bats—about four hundred bats—can produce nine million seedlings of new fruit trees a year. Without the bats, those fruit trees wouldn’t happen. Bats are also critical to the survival in the wild of avocados, balsa, bananas, breadfruit, cashews, cloves, dates, figs, guavas, mangoes, peaches, and saguaro cactus, among others.
