Sentences with phrase «fruit bat species»

But a 2014 study found three fruit bat species sometimes use a rudimentary method of echolocation: They make a clicking noise with their wings to navigate in darkness.

They show that some 3 months after the outbreak took off and became a full - blown epidemic, the virus underwent a mutation that made it better suited for humans than for its presumed natural host, a fruit bat species.

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They found antibodies and viral RNA fragments in three species of bats, including hammer - headed fruit bats.

To find out, she measured the acidity of saliva from a number of species of fruit bat.

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

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.

However, in the 40 years since the first Ebola outbreak, fruit bats have been found to be probable reservoirs for filoviruses — the type that causes Ebola — and the Ebola genome and antibodies have been found in bat and rodent species in East and West Africa.

Making up one - fifth of all living mammal species and found on six continents, bats range from the insect - loving greater mouse - eared bat, to fruit bats.

In the case of Ebola, they argue that the sampling of fruit bats after human outbreaks may have biased subsequent investigations toward bat - Ebola virus ecology, and other, possible host species may have been overlooked.

Males of many different mammalian species have the potential to lactate, although only one, the Dayak fruit bat of Southeast Asia, does so spontaneously.

The horses had picked up the disease while feeding beneath trees inhabited by fruit bats, which are Hendra's natural host species.

In the study, published in Nature Communications, researchers analyses that henipaviruses, transmittable to animals and humans, and a disease, similar to rabies, are prevalent in this species of fruit bat of Africa.

Located 250 kilometers from Manila, the Hundred Islands National Park, declared in 1940 by Pres. Manuel Quezon, is a sprinkling of 123 islets in a beautiful tropical sea with white sand beaches, caves, and habitat to various species of birds and fruit bats.

This is a great way to see crocodiles, fruit bats, spider monkeys and hundreds of different bird species, including many species of herons.

This species, along with other fruit bats, is present in the Ebola impacted area and may have been a...

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.

Yesterday Aardvark blogged about the desecration of the D Day beaches by bird choppers and finished the post with, «Now if the area around the Normandy beaches were home to a threatened species of aquatic fruit bat then every NGO from Greenpeace to the WWF would be up in arms.»