Synopsis
Long-tongued bats love sweet nectar and this makes them perfect nocturnal pollinators.
- Programme: Natural World
- Series: 2019-2020
- Episode: Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey - Part 2
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2020
- Biology
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