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Photographer How Hwee Young captured the meeting of a Linne’s two-toed sloth and a Malayan flying fox in a tree at the Singapore Zoo.

Flying foxes are different from microbats (also called ‘true bats’) in that they don’t use echolocation; instead, they rely on their more highly developed senses of sight and smell to find food like fruit and nectar.

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--Lindsay Barnett