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| | Bats |
 | | Worldwide, bats are efficient predators of nocturnal insects, including numerous costly agricultural pests, and they pollinate the flowers and disperse the seeds of hundreds of ecologically and economically important plants. | | | Insectivorous bats hunt flying insects or pluck stationary insects off the ground or foliage. | | | Fully evolved bats lived at a time when the predecessors of the horse were small, 3-toed, fox-like animals trotting around in the Eocene swamps. |
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http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_bats.html
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Most bats are insectivorous and are able to hawk their prey on the wing or to seek out stationary insects on foliage or other surfaces. | | | Nocturnality gives bats many advantages, such as greatly reduced competition for insects and other food items, substantial freedom from attack, and protection from overheating and dehydration, to which bats are especially liable because of their enormous skin area relative to their size. | | | The abundance of bats despite their low individual reproductive performances is attributable not only to the survival value of their habits but also to their remarkable longevity. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals/bat.html
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| | Short-tailed leaf-nosed bat |
| | These Short-tailed leaf-nosed bats can be found in tropical rainforests, tropical deciduous forests, temperate rainforests and temperate forests of moist evergreens or dry deciduous trees. | | | Bats have wings which differ from birds' wings in only one way: skin instead of feathers! | | | Short-tailed leaf-nosed bats can be found in Central and South America, specifically Paraguay, northern Argentina, southeastern Brazil and from Mexico to Bolivia. |
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http://www.nashvillezoo.org/bats.htm
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| | Bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Though the vast majority of bats are insectivorous, a significant number from both suborders, Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera (see below), have developed the ability to feed on fruits and their juices, including some of the smaller species that are important pollinators of some tropical flowers. | | | Bats will land on the ground, for feeding, in bad weather, or due to accidents while learning to fly. | | | Indeed, many tropical plants are now found to be totally dependent for them, not just as pollinators, but eating the resulting fruits and so spreading their seeds. |
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http://www.indexlistus.de/keyword/Bat.php
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| | Gander Academy's Bat Species |
| | Short-tailed leaf-nosed bats can be found in Central and South America, specifically Paraguay, northern Argentina, southeastern Brazil and from Mexico to Bolivia. | | | They are nocturnal furbearing animals which feed their young milk produced in mammary glands. | | | The Western Small-footed Myotis (Myotis ciliolabrum) has a distribution ranging from Zacateca, Tlaxcala, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico, northward to southern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada and from California to the Plains States....In New Mexico, the species occurs at low to moderate elevations to as high as 9500 feet elevation. |
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http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/batsspecies.htm
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| | BatHead |
| | These bats may have some minor impact on cultivated fruit production, but are also important seed dispersers and pollinators of these very same crops. | | | Jamaican fruit bats have been observed to eat pollen, nectar, fruit, and insects though they are most commonly associated with large cultivated and wild fruits (Mango, Papaya, but never citrus fruits). | | | Because roosts used by these bats are often fairly well lit inside during the day, seeds dropped onto the floor of the roost may germinate there if they receive sunlight and water. |
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http://biomicro.sdstate.edu/pederses/guideajam.html
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| | Leaf-nosed Bats |
| | It is a resident of desert scrub, feeding on the nectar and pollen of night blooming desert plans such as the saguaro, organ pipe cactus and agave. | | | The California leaf-nosed bat feeds primarily upon large night-flying beetles, moths and grasshoppers taken in flight. | | | This large, nectar feeding bat is a summer resident of southern Arizona, south into Mexico and Baja California. |
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http://www.xpressweb.com/~talon/BatsinAz/nectar.html
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| | Bats - Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat |
| | These very small bats feed on small flying insects, often hunting in groups. | | | They use their thumb claw to clean their ears, face, mouth and nose, their foot claw to comb the fur on their back and belly, and their tongue to clean their wings. | | | Vulnerable to disturbance from human visitors to cave roosts, destruction of caves by mining, and loss of feeding habitat by clearing and land degradation from agriculture. |
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http://www.austmus.gov.au/bats/records/bat17.htm
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| | Order Chiroptera |
| | Bats as a group are crepuscular or nocturnal; their eyes are small and inefficient, but their ears are usually well developed. | | | Nose leaf absent, indistinct, or modified as lateral ridges or low mound-like structure; snout normal: 3 | | | In the temperate regions, the young are born in late spring; in the tropics there appears to be no definite breeding season — young bats may be found in every month of the year. |
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http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/ordchiro.htm
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| | Brown, Patricia E., Berry, Robert D., Brown, Cathi, 1993. Bats and Mines: Finding Solutions . BATS. Vol 11, No 2:12-13. |
| | Unable to lower their body temperatures and enter torpor, leaf-nosed bats conserve energy during the winter by congregating in groups of hundreds in especially warm roosts where temperatures are greater than 80 degrees Fahrenheit. | | | Sixteen years ago we began to study the ecology and behavior of these bats at the American Boy and Golden Queen mines in southeastern California's Cargo Muchacho Mountains. | | | This suggests that foraging areas adjacent to the roost are very important for winter survival. |
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http://www.bonus.com/contour/bats/http@@/www.batcon.org/batsmag/v11n2-4.html
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| | Elisabeth Kalko Q&A |
| | We have learned how bats adjust the type of their signals to different habitats and different kinds of food they take. | | | Further, a much greater number of plants and insects are found in the tropics, which in turn allows many more bat species to live together. | | | This is possible because in the tropics fruit and flowers are produced all year-round, not interrupted by harsh winters. |
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http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3281_ekalko.html
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| | Horseshoe bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like many Vespertilionidae bats, females of some rhinolophid species mate during the fall and store the sperm over the winter, conceiving and gestating young beginning in the spring. | | | Members of northern populations may hibernate during the winter; at least one species is migratory. | | | In rhinolophines species, these take the shape of a horseshoe; in hipposiderine, they are leaf- or spear-like. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinolophidae
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| | BISON Species Account 050055 |
| | California leaf-nosed bats primarily eat insects, including grasshoppers, cicadas, beetles, dragonflies, sphinx moths, butterflies, and caterpillars. | | | They generally "glean" or take insects off the ground or from the vegetation instead of taking them in flight. | | | Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Plant and Animal Taxa That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened Species. |
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| | Meet Our Bats |
| | Due to the vast habitat destruction and development in agriculture and increased livestock, Common vampire bats have greatly increased in population to the point that in some areas are considered pests. | | | Two species prefer avian blood and are less abundant. | | | Vampire bats evolved from leaf-nosed bats by eating burrowing insects like screwworms that burrow into the skin of animals. |
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http://www.batconservation.org/content/meetourbats/vampire.htm
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| | Moose Peterson's Photo of the Month Archives 1998 - All Photos Copyright Moose Peterson |
| | They don't hear the movement of these insects, but their radar is sensitive enough to be able to determine that's what they have in front of them. | | | Bats do an incredible job keeping the insect population in check. | | | They get their name, California Leaf-nosed Bat because one, they were first described in California (though found in AZ) and second, because of the "leaf" around their nose. |
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http://www.moosepeterson.com/POM/1998.html
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| | BAT - Glossophaga |
| | Like the long-nosed bat it likes the flowers of the kapok tree, the banana plants and the calebash. | | | Most cacti flower and set fruits in the dry season, thus producing food for other animals (like lora, prikichi and iguana) as well. | | | When a bat visits a cactus flower, a cactus fruit can be set. |
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http://www.bonairenature.com/bats/Glossophaga.html
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| | Leaf-nosed bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Within the group, species have evolved to utilize food groups such as fruit, nectar, pollen, insects, frogs, other bats and small vertebrates, and closely allied families that feed on fish Noctilionidae and the three highly specialised species that feed on blood. | | | The family gets its name from the often large, lance shaped nose projection used to direct their sonar, though some of the nectar/pollen feeders have greatly reduced it. | | | The Leaf-nosed bats, family Phyllostomidae are by far the most varied and diverse within the whole order Chiroptera and count within their number true predatory species that take vertebrate prey including small Dove -sized birds in the case of the False Vampire, Vampyrum spectrum, the largest bat in the Americas. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf-nosed_bat
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| | Noel, Debra C., 1995. STATE BAT MANAGEMENT: The Arizona Advantage . BATS. Vol 13, No 2:5-10. |
| | But because of what we learned, plans are now underway to locate the test site in a less sensitive area. | | | It is also home to a summer nursery colony of Townsend's big-eared bats and a winter colony of California leaf-nosed bats. | | | The roost is one of only two such roosts known for the species in the state. |
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http://www.bonus.com/contour/bats/http@@/www.batcon.org/batsmag/v13n2-3.html
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| | Meet Our Bats |
| | The smaller fruits are carried to feeding sites during the night, but toward morning these bats carry fruit to their regular roosts. | | | Jamaican fruit bats pass the fruit through its body quickly and nuts seeds, and fruit cores accumulate beneath roosting areas: these bats thus aid in the dissemination of seeds of tropical fruit. | | | The bats form colonies of 2-14 female bats, their young, and a single adult male. |
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http://www.batconservation.org/content/meetourbats/jamaicaninfo.htm
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| | Wild Animals: Bats; species and families |
| | New species are being discovered, but, unfortunately, some species are only known from a few specimens. | | | One of the main reasons for the confusion is that bats have only recently received the kind of study given to larger animals. | | | For example, a few years ago there was only species of pipistrelle recognised in Britain - now there are three - the common pipistelle has been split into two species, each with different call patterns, while the Nathusiu's pipistrelle has been noted more often than was previously thought. |
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| | They live in colonies in southern California, southeastern Nevada, southern and northwestern Arizona, and south into Mexico. | | | This bat has night vision, so it can see well and hear very well. | | | The California Leaf-nosed Bat is a very awesome bat. |
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http://www.towson.edu/csme/mctp/StudentProjects/BatInfo/caln.htm
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| | California Leaf-nosed Bat |
| | Huey, L. Food of the California leaf-nosed bat. | | | Usually, these bats may be found hanging by their feet 10-25 m (30-80 ft) from the entrance, depending on temperature. | | | Experimentally determined weight lifting capacity in individuals of five species of western bats. |
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http://www.sibr.com/mammals/M019.html
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| | Southeastern Bat Diversity Network |
| | Information on the role of odor in bats' sexual behaviors. | | | Sketch of the bat rarely seen in California and describes some of its behavior in the wild. | | | Description of the Noctilionidae Family of bats and their behaviors in the wild. |
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http://www.sbdn.org/bat_links.html
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| | Digimorph - Carollia perspicillata (short-tailed leaf-nosed bat) |
| | It is often the most common bat species in regions where it occurs. | | | Carollia perspicillata, Seba’s short-tailed bat, is an echolocating bat native to Central and South America. | | | Carollia is a fruit-eating bat that specializes on fruits of the genus Piper. |
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http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Carollia_perspicillata/head
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| | Welcome to Bat Conservation International |
| | a single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour. | | | his bilingual storybook shares a heartwarming tale about a young bat's confusion when his colony migrates... | | | Go to our home page, alternatively, try our search engine to facilitate in your enquiry. |
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http://www.batcon.org/discover/species/mcalifor.html
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| | CWC Spring 1996: A Face Only a Mother Could Love |
| | Mother bats locate their tiny young by the specific calls and scent of the baby, even amid a nursery colony containing millions of baby bats, sometimes clustered as densely as 500 per square foot. | | | (If bats did admire their babies' facial features, what would they say "Oh look honey, he has your mother's nose leaves!") | | | As to the beauty of these ridge-faced bats, it is not only in the eye of the beholder, but also in the sound and scent. |
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http://wildlife.state.co.us/Colo_Wild_Co/spr1996/face.htm
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| | SpeleoArt Gallery |
| | Plate 9 in A Field Guide To The Mammals Of Central America And Southeast Mexico. | | | The phyllostomines of middle size range, including the Frog-eating or Fringe-lipped Bat, are shown. | | | 13" H x 8 1/2" W. Medium sized leaf-nosed bats. |
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http://www.speleobooks.com/art/A06/19.html
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| | Animals in the Atlas |
| | Chiroptera (bats): Phyllostomidae (New World leaf-nosed bats) (A-F) Buffy Flower Bat | | | Chiroptera (bats): Phyllostomidae (New World leaf-nosed bats) (A-F) Cuban Flower Bat | | | Chiroptera (bats): Phyllostomidae (New World leaf-nosed bats) (A-F) Belding's Ground Squirrel |
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http://www.dynamicplanet.com/MammalAtlas/List_of_Animals.htm
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| | bats.htm |
| | After typing the final copy, they illustrated their topic. | | | After a mini-lesson on notetaking, they began their research using a variety of books, magazine articles, and web sites. | | | Hester's Reading Language Arts class each selected a topic related to bats for an independent research project. |
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http://www.towson.edu/csme/mctp/StudentProjects/BatInfo/bats.htm
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