Q: Fruit-eating bats receive food from plants and, in return, help these plants by doing what?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Fruit-eating bats ( Figure below ) also receive food from plants. In return, they help these plants spread their seeds. When bats consume fruit, they also consume the seeds within the fruit. Then they carry the seeds in their guts to far-away locations.

 Choices:

- pollinating seeds

- fertilizing them

- protecting them

- spreading seeds


A:
spreading seeds