Sentences with phrase «ate fruit bats»

Among people who regularly ate fruit bats, he hypothesized, the cumulative dose of BMAA might have been sufficient to inflict brain damage.

For one thing, Meliandou is not located near fruit bat roosting sites where the child might have come in contact with an infected animal or tainted fruit, and there is no evidence that the family ate fruit bats.

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Birds and bats are important seed dispersers, eating desert fruits during the wet season and spreading their seeds through droppings.

The toxin, they proposed, was «biomagnified» in cycad - eating flying foxes — fruit bats.

Thomas Kunz of Boston University and his team observed a captive colony of the Rodrigues fruit - eating bat (Pteropus rodricensis) in Gainesville, Florida.

Bats ate less fruit in lit areas than in dark ones, which may lessen their seed - dispersal activities needed to bring back slashed rainforests.

These trees are frequently used by fruit - eating, insect - eating and blood - licking bat species as daytime roosts.

But most of the bats he captured at the clay lick were fruit - eating bats — and many of them were pregnant or lactating.

Christian Voigt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and his colleagues captured bats of two different species: one that eats mostly fruit and one that eats mostly insects.

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.

If the bats were eating clay for minerals, Voigt predicted, he would find fewer fruit - eating bats at the clay licks because fruits have more dietary minerals than insects.

«Black mouse - eared bat goes green: First case of a fruit - eating bat in the largest genus.»

He suggests that pigs picked up the virus by eating fruit from nearby trees that had been munched on by infected bats.

Now the University of Malaya's Lam Kai Sit says he has clinched the case that bats are Nipah's reservoir: His team isolated virus from the island flying fox's urine and from fruit half - eaten by the bat — which means the virus is present in saliva.

It is home to a group of small, fruit - eating bats ranging from half - an - ounce to three ounces in size.

When the bats eat fruit, the seeds are then spread later in the guano, which contributes to a strengthening of a natural, global ecosystem.

And fruit - eating bats are key players in restoring those vital forests.

However, humans, higher primates, Guinea pigs, and some fruit - eating bats lack an enzyme required for this internal production of the vitamin, so we must get it in foods every day, and constantly recycle it in the body using other antioxidants and free radical fighters.

Although Stellaluna is a fruit bat, she tries to fit in with the customs of the birds by eating insects, sleeping at night, and she sleeps in their nest instead of hanging upside down by her feet.

Unlike fruit bats, orangutans, and other animals with raging sweet teeth, rabbits have evolved to eat predominantly grasses and other vegetable matter.

Your rabbit, unlike fruit - eating herbivores like fruit bats, evolved to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating high - fiber, low - sugar plant matter.

Just 5 km north of the picnic area, you will find Bats Caves, which is filled with many fruit eating bBats Caves, which is filled with many fruit eating batsbats.

However, she's eaten far more bizarre things including fish sperm sac in Taiwan, fruit bat in Palau, and even a conch penis in Belize.

The clade Chiroptera includes species with very diverse food preferences, including bats that eat either meat, insects, fish, fruit, nectar, or a variety of food types.