The discovery that a rainforest vine has evolved dish-shaped leaves with such conspicuous echoes that nectar-feeding bats can find its flowers twice as fast, was covered by BBC News, New Scientist, National Geographic, LiveScience, Discovery News, Die Zeit, Sueddeutsche, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Stern, Focus and several local newspapers.  Dr Marc Holderied was interviewed by The Naked Scientists and BBC Radio Bristol.

The research was carried out by Dr Holderied in the School of Biological Sciences with colleagues at the Universities of Erlangen and Ulm, Germany and published in the prestigious journal Science.

Full press release: Rainforest plant developed sonar dish to attract pollinating bats

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