Vampire bats can’t taste umami :(
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@evoterra this is just for vampire bats specifically. I haven’t checked but I have to assume fruit bats taste sweetness or else theyd just die?
Ok, but now I have the same question about the diet of vampire bats. Umami is what makes things steak and blood taste like… anything!
These little dude just licking salty-but-tasteless liquid from the cows? Exclusively? Forever?
@endeavorance What the hell does blood taste like to them without that delicious umami???
@endeavorance They would be rejected in Japanese society :(((
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Must suck to be a fruit bat. What does a ripe fruit taste like w/o sweet?
Unflavored/unsweetened fiber, I reckon.
And that’s what the ear. Exclusively. For their entire lives?
Ew.