Consider a researcher who discovers two new, similar bat species in the same geographic area. Remarkably, one species preys on insects during the day, while the other, as expected, is nocturnal and feeds at night. These two bat species would be considered: a. energetically separated b. temporally separated c. ecologically separated d. both temporally and ecologically separated e. temperamentally separated
Biology · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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b. temporally separated
The key phrase in the question is that one bat species is active during the day while the other is active at night. This implies that their active times don't overlap, which means they are separated by time, or "temporally" separated. Even though they are similar and located in the same geographic area, the time at which they hunt for their food resources is different, allowing them to coexist without directly competing for the same food sources at the same time.