Ocean channel in Bahamas marks genetic divide in Brazilian free-tailed bats – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ocean-channel-in-bahamas-marks-genetic-divide-in-brazilian-free-tailed-bats/
Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing bat populations that last shared an ancestor hundreds of thousands of years
Because they can fly, bats are good models for studying mammal movement in fragmented