Sentences with phrase «eaten by bats»

«The hypothesis was that Lepidoptera started shifting to day activity to avoid getting eaten by bats, but the answer may not be that simple.»

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.

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The guano cycle begins when plant matter is eaten by insects, which are, in turn, eaten and digested by bats.

This bat species catches its prey by performing a midair somersault and closing its wings and tail around an insect it plans to eat.

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

A nectar - feeding bat that was thought to eat insects in passing has been discovered to target its moving prey with stealth precision, according to new research by a scientist at Queen Mary University of London.

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

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

This is because bat species are distributed all over the world, and provide lots of services to humans through controlling pests by eating vast quantities of insects and pollinating and dispersing commercially important crops (for example bananas, tequila).

He is particularly charmed by insect - eating bats, who measure distance by timing echoes bouncing back from sounds they generate as they fly.

Frog - eating bats pinpoint their prey by their calls, and have evolved unique hearing that allows them to detect both the high - pitched squeaks of their echolocation system and the low - frequency sound of calling frogs.

While most long - fingered bats eat only insects, they may all be instinctively able to also catch fish, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Ostaizka Aizpurua and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of the Basque Country, Spain.

Tuttle shares research showing that frog - eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that vampire bats have a social order similar to that of primates, and that bats have remarkable memories.

Bats also provide enormous benefits by eating crop pests, pollinating plants, and carrying seeds needed for reforestation.

Which is why he's already gone to bat for them, first by helping to get the Harvard undergraduate dining halls to stay open during breaks so that low - income kids who aren't going home or on vacation have a place to eat.

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.

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.

If Helen Marten were a scene from literature, it would be this: Alice, wondering whether cats eat bats or bats eat cats, discovers that the Cheshire Cat is, in fact, a reincarnation of Martin Kippenberger (she can tell by his preference for pasta and puns).

The adult moths are eaten by some species of bats.

Extermination is not the best solution because bats make a valuable contribution to the ecosystem by eating flies and mosquitoes.