What makes one bat take risks and venture far from its roost in search of food, while another stays close to familiar, safer areas? A new study from Tel Aviv University’s School of Zoology reveals that the environment in which a bat is raised during the first months of its life largely determines how it will behave in the wild, sometimes even more than its innate personality.

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