Sentences with phrase «fruit bat flies»
An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007.
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The toxin, they proposed, was «biomagnified» in cycad - eating flying foxes — fruit bats.
Moreover, the increasing scarcity of fruit bats (specifically, the kind called flying foxes) on Guam might explain why the outbreak of lytico - bodig had petered out.
Both viruses are initially spread from fruit bats, more commonly known as flying foxes.
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.
In a series of trials in Costa Rica, scientists studied Sowell's short - tailed fruit bats as they flew around a large octagonal cage.
The fruit bat came second, and in joint third the fly nervous system and the fly legs.
The virus, which occurs naturally in the flying fox (or fruit bat) population of the region, can be transmitted from the bat to horse, which then can transmit it to other horses and humans.
Our boatwoman mentioned that the fruit bats from Pura Goa Lawar (the bat cave temple south of Padang Bai on Bali) fly over in the evenings to the mangroves for a feed, but no tours operate at that time.
There was no warning of hundreds of loud crying fruit bats / flying foxes living right in front of the trees in front of our room balcony.
From the Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organization that works with local scientists around the globe to encourage wildlife and habitat conservation, comes news of the world's largest fruit bat — a furry critter with a 5 - foot wingspan known as the flying fox.