This blind, poop-eating cavefish from Mexico tastes with its head 
By Daniel Graham MX Source: discover wildlife 8/16/2024
Daniel Graham
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The development of taste buds on the head and chin of the cavefish are the result of intense environmental pressures – and a penchant for bat poop – a new study has found.
 

A species of blind cavefish from Mexico has a profusion of tastebuds on its head and chin. Why? It's all to do with what it eats, according to a new study published in the journal Communications Biology

Scientists from the University of Cincinnati say that an appetite for bat poop may be the cause for this unusual way of tasting.

 
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