Sentences with phrase «as other bats»

Their kidneys are about the same size as other bats» kidneys, Axelsson says.

Not exact matches

Between «losing» a lot of money right off the bat and then getting interested in a whole host of other things as a teenager, I pretty much forgot about the account, just letting capital gains and dividends reinvest since then.

The 1980's and 1990's will bring plenty of tumult in terms of ownership, as Arabian princes, Primerica, Shearson and others will bat the company around like kittens in a box with a ball of string.

Quite unlike other available coins, such as DigiByte (DGB), Digital Cash (DASH), and many more, the BAT coin allows users and publishers to monetize via its blockchain - enabled token, whereas Reddit Gold does not facilitate a mechanism for publishers and users to monetize through its blockchain - enabled token.

CME, of which COMEX is a division, is similar to other exchanges, such as NASDAQ, NYSE, and BAT, that have gone public in recent years.

Some things I have always done as though I were right - handed, without giving them another thought (swinging anything two - handed, like a bat or an axe); other things are merely annoying because the world seems to be made with righties in mind (like blackening the heel of my hand with ink or graphite as I write).

The faith that Will Middlebrooks is as good as 267 rookie at - bats suggest, and not as fatally contact - challenged as the other 2,700 professional at - bats suggest?

The Orioles succeeded, as they showed Atlanta, with reliable starting pitching, the best bullpen in baseball and just enough offense, though they are talking to other clubs, trying to find another bat, such as Geronimo Berroa of the Oakland Athletics.

This allows you, the viewer, to connect with a couple of players straight off the bat, while still allowing space for somebody or other to emerge as a cult figure of affection.

His defense and speed aren't going to be carrying tools, so he's a bat first left fielder - probably why others are a bit slower on him than us since his overall upside doesn't leave as much room for error, but when you can hit you can play and he can hit.

Yes, it might impact European leagues more severely than others but so do the majority of other competitions and barely anyone bats an eye - lid, yet as soon as it's suggest taking place in the Gulf it's completely unworkable.

This origami puppet looks like a cute cat, but you can make other animal faces too, such as a bat or dog, by drawing a different face, or folding the ears differently.

The studies examine everything from viable ports to turbine manufacturing and wind - farm construction and staging to the need for cables, pipelines and other infrastructure, as well as the impact on birds, bats and fish.

Fears of Zika and other mosquito - borne illnesses have led a Long Island town to experiment with the use of bats as a natural alternative to pesticides to pesticides to kill mosquitoes this summer.

To date in 2014, 16 animals from Erie County tested positive for rabies, predominantly bats and raccoons but other animals such as skunks and fox also.

These findings add to previous work showing bat - specific changes in other DNA sensors such as AIM2, IFI16, and TLR9 that elicit more harmonious immune responses to pathogens.

Some, like bats, are unfairly maligned; others are adored despite shocking behavior, such as Adélie penguins, whose sex lives were considered so depraved that, in 1915, London's Natural History Museum boldly marked a paper about the birds» mating behavior as «Not for Publication.»

He and other skyflyers based their spectacular stunts on studies of the science of flight, although in Sohn's case it was technology that failed him: His career as a human bat ended in 1937 after a double chute malfunction in France.

«Hence, our findings offer hope that amphibians and other wild animals threatened by fungal pathogens — such as bats, bees, and snakes — might be capable of acquiring resistance to fungi and thus might be rescued by management approaches based on herd immunity.»

Other animals may be able to detect sounds too high or low pitched for us to hear, but our ability to discriminate between sounds as close as a quarter of a musical tone apart appears to be unmatched among mammals, with the possible exception of bats.

Other vocal - learning species, such as whales, bats, elephants, and seals, may also rely on the gene.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

No other material comes as close to matching the properties of bat skin, says Ramezani.

Cactus flowers provide nectar to hummingbirds and bats, as well as bees, moths and other insects, which, in turn, pollinate the plants.

He's hopeful that other birds and bats that feast on insects in the air and on the trees near the river will become stronger as well.

The researchers found twice as many changes in the bat's FOXP2 sequence as they found in all the other species combined — indicative of rapid evolution.

Infrared camera footage of wild bat colonies inhabited by M. myotis and two other bat species showed that vertical plastic plates trick bats in natural settings, as well.

Most of the bat, shrew, porcupine, and other rodent specimens are compatible with a relatively moist environmental setting, as are the abundant fossils of monkeys and spiral - horned antelopes.

Other mammals, such as lemurs, vesper bats, carnivores and even - toed ungulates, have MER41 relatives in their genomes, too, Feschotte and colleagues reported last year in Science.

The heavy bat practice group averaged 77.2 kilometers per hour with their real swings — not as quick as the other two groups.

To his colleagues» consternation, the formula seems to work: for trees, bees, bats, birds, fish, frogs and others — accounting for observed patterns of diversity with just a few parameters, such as rates of birth and migration.

Though it's rare for plants to use sound as an attraction tactic, there are other species that employ this technique, like some bat - pollinated plants in the Neotropics; this, however, is the first example of a plant that doesn't use the strategy for pollination.

It is however likely that bats are the natural hosts for the virus, and that human infections are the result of contact with other animals such as camels acting as intermediate hosts.

As I reported in a feature story in Scientific American last December, some fungi have been behaving badly of late, attacking bats, plants, amphibians, reptiles, and people with gusto, driving many species to extinction and others to the brink.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

In other animals, such as bats, sperm can remain viable for several months, swimming in place along the walls of the female's uterus.

Bats, as well as birds, bees and other animals, spread pollen from flower to flower each time they slurp up nectar.

So let's take 2,000 people, and beat half of them in the head with baseball bats, and the other half we'll use Styrofoam bats as a control for the others.

As you only know each other's online selves it will take some time to get used to chatting in real life, so don't worry if the chemistry isn't there right off the bat.

Additionally, as long as you sign up for the right website, you have a general idea right off the bat what the other person is looking for from being on the site.

There are other better websites such as pof and oasis and okc can carry on like «blind bats» into the future.

Even now, though, it's hard to find anyone who'll really go to bat for the film as anything other than a new nadir in Burton's creative slump.

The campaign is a highlight of the game as it is narrated by a British narrator in the form of a wildlife television show akin to Steve Irwin but only if he told all of the animals on the show to kill each other with nukes and baseball bats.

Clooney does a good job of batting his eyes and lowering his head and all those other movements that have endeared him to fans as the sexy doctor on ER.

This mechanic slows down the pace quite a bit allowing for you to carefully think about your next move as well as evade projectiles such as bullets, baseball bats and other melee weapons.

As a mysterious bat - like creature, you'll learn the songs and cries of other animals of the forest, unlocking new abilities to help you make your way to the forest's heart to uncover the spreading darkness.

BAT is the acronym for Badass Teachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instructors.

(c) As a BAT - or STT - qualified immediate supervisor of a particular employee, you may not act as the STT or BAT when that employee is tested, unless no other STT or BAT is available and DOT agency regulations do not prohibit you from doing sAs a BAT - or STT - qualified immediate supervisor of a particular employee, you may not act as the STT or BAT when that employee is tested, unless no other STT or BAT is available and DOT agency regulations do not prohibit you from doing sas the STT or BAT when that employee is tested, unless no other STT or BAT is available and DOT agency regulations do not prohibit you from doing so.

(b) If, as an STT, BAT, employer or other service agent administering the testing process, you become aware of a «correctable flaw» (see § 40.269) that has not already been corrected, you must take all practicable action to correct the problem so that the test is not cancelled.

It was also found with other folks who work there such as Scott Shauns supervisor, Daniel who went to bat for us and got us a great deal.