Sentences with phrase «as the bat feeds»

The tongue acts more like a conveyor belt — and less like the lapping tongue of a cat — as the bat feeds on flowers.

Not exact matches

The BATs are also viewed less as troublemakers than as modernizers of the emerging markets, feeding the needs of consumers who want to shop, communicate and be entertained on their smartphones.

Marco Tschapka at the University of Ulm and colleagues show that grooved - tongued bats in the group of New World leaf - nosed bats known as the Lonchophyllinae display a unique feeding behavior.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

Nectar - feeding bats and busy janitors have at least two things in common: They want to wipe up as much liquid as they can as fast as they can, and they have specific equipment for the job.

The common vampire bat is widely distributed in Latin America, from Southern Mexico to Northern Chile, Brazil and Uruguay and often feeds on blood from domestic animals, such as cattle.

Voigt concluded that the pregnant fruit bats visited the clay licks to detox because they were eating twice as much to feed their babies, which meant twice the dose of plant toxins from unripe fruits, seeds and leaves.

The interfering bats produce an ultrasonic signal just as the foraging bat produces its feeding call, effectively jamming the echolocation signal and causing the forager to miss its target.

To test this, he trained three male nectar - feeding bats (Glossophaga soricina) to search for a feeder 2.5 centimetres wide — roughly the same size as a single nectary — in a chamber filled with artificial foliage.

Bats also help with crops: they act as a natural pesticide by feeding on harmful insects.

Nursing the lethargic survivors back to health, he feeds the bats concentrated sugar water through a dropper, and they stagger drunkenly across the table as they regain strength.

See insectivorous bats socialising and feeding around the resort lakes; turn the spotlight on sugar gliders as they move from tree to tree; learn about the stars in the southern sky.

As dusk settles, a visit to the entrance of Barker's Tube allows you to witness the amazing bat emergence as literally thousands of micro bats leave to feed at nighAs dusk settles, a visit to the entrance of Barker's Tube allows you to witness the amazing bat emergence as literally thousands of micro bats leave to feed at nighas literally thousands of micro bats leave to feed at night.