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Environment
Biggest pollinators?
- Jan 10, 2025
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About 90% of the world's plants need pollinators to reproduce. The majority of the world’s pollinators are flying insects. They include bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, and some flies.When pollinators visit flowers to drink nectar, they transfer pollen from one flower to another.Some mammals are also pollinators. Bats are one example. Other mammal pollinators are small rodents or mouse-like animals.There may be another mammal pollinator: the Ethiopian wolf.Ethiopian wolves are the most endangered meat-eaters in Africa. There are fewer than 450 left. They live in the mountains of southeast Ethiopia. Recently, researchers from a British university were watching Ethiopian wolves. They filmed one wolf visiting up to 30 flowers.The wolf licked the bottom of each flower to drink the sweet nectar. On each “flower visit”, the wolf's nose got covered in pollen. The flowers the Ethiopian wolves like to lick are called Kniphofia, or red-hot pokers. These plants have long, grass-like leaves. They grow tall spikes with big, cone-shaped flowers. They are red, yellow, and orange.The researchers need another study to confirm if Ethiopian wolves help pollinate these flowers. If they do, the wolves will be the world’s largest known pollinators.
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