Sentences with phrase «fruit bats»

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

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

The virus persists in wild fruit bats and occasionally jumps to people.

The origin of the virus is unknown, but based on available evidence fruit bats are considered the likely host of the virus.

Almost half the species of this type of fruit bat are now threatened with extinction.

They fear the emergence of a dangerous new human pathogen, possibly spread to people from fruit bats via pigs.

Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues captured 30 male and 30 female short - nosed fruit bats in Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou City and observed their mating behaviour in enclosures.

Similarly, female short - nosed fruit bats sometimes fellate males during mating.

CALLISTO shows an article published on 19 November in the BBC News website, section Science & Environment, concerning viruses harbored by fruit bats found in Africa.

«We don't have particularly good data on wildlife numbers, such as fruit bats in Sierra Leone, and only a crude idea of their geographic distribution and how many are infected.

The Nipah virus, which causes deadly encephalitis in people, most likely originated in a native fruit bat species, researchers reported here today at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Here we alternated usage of vision and echolocation in Egyptian fruit bats while recording from single neurons in hippocampal areas CA1 and subiculum.

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

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.

The biologist at University College Cork in Ireland was required by the school to attend 2 years of counseling for reading aloud from a scientific paper about fruit bat fellatio.

Passed the Raffles Hotel there is an avenue of towering trees, a home to a colony of giant fruit bats that live here and that you can see hanging at any time of the day.

The most likely vector, strange as it seemed, was the flying fox, a large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus.

He is looking to see if the Hendra - like virus is present in colonies of fruit bats found in the area.

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

In some places, hunting has obliterated entire Madagascan fruit bat colonies.

This Peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) is shown with the Hepatocystis malaria parasite (inset).

The clade Chiroptera includes two extant clades, Megachiroptera (Old World Fruit Bats) and Microchiroptera (echolocating bats).

In Virginia Tech's study of fruit bat wings, the researchers used experimental measurements of the movements of the bats» wings in real flight, and then used analysis software to see the direct relationship between wing motion and airflow around the bat wing.

This thriving example of urban agriculture is one of many surprising sustainable initiatives at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall, which includes bird habitat, a tree nursery, rooftop apiary, and even a bat cave for native fruit bats to call home.

In a series of trials in Costa Rica, scientists studied Sowell's short - tailed fruit bats as they flew around a large octagonal cage.

Carter's visit was scheduled in anticipation of today's opening of «Countdown to Zero,» a special exhibit at the museum focused on the possibilities for elimination and eradication of diseases including guinea worm, river blindness, malaria and Ebola — the latter of which holds great challenges because it is transmitted to humans by so many types of animals including fruit bats, chimpanzees, porcupines and antelopes.

About 500 population monkeys in this forest, inside of the forest there is very old temple (Alas Kedaton Temple), big fruit bats hanging in high tree during the day time and will go to outside for feed in the night time.

About 500 population monkeys in this forest, inside of the forest there is very old temple called Pura Bukit Sari (Alas Kedaton Temple), big fruit bats hanging in high tree during the day time and will go to outside for feed in the night time.

A pair of six foot long monitor lizards clamber over giant granite boulders beside the beach, forked tongues flashing; Hornbills, reminiscent of pre-historic birds from a school textbook, squawk loudly and sweep through heavily scented frangipani trees; fruit bats dangle like strange fruit over the tropical gardens and macaque monkeys chatter as they scramble through the trees tops.

A lot happened this week in green: from readers in the Hollywood Hills to our writers in Times Square, the International Day of Climate Action brought global awareness for climate change; we found out Chinese fruit bats demonstrate unusual sexual

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Russell Crowe claims to have had a «close encounter» while trying to catch fruit bats on camera over the Sydney Botanic gardens.

An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007.

As the name suggests, part of the altar is dedicated to a huge cave teeming with fruit bats.

Then I heard the two strange sounds I still associate with evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then, from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin, calling the Muslim faithful to evening prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary, to holy war.

It's pretty obvious that I've well and truly got over my fruit fears and am now a veritable fruit bat!

The weirdest, most newsworthy discovery is that some male fruit bats lactate.

There are no vampire bats in this area and fruit bats don't live in North America.

Fruit bats stand in for vocal - learning mammals in isolation tests to test language development

Editor's note: This article was updated February 5, 2015, to remove bananas from the list of crops that fruit bats pollinate.

Tel Aviv University researchers studied 15,000 Egyptian fruit bat calls over 75 days and pinpointed specific vocalizations in the cacophony for the first time.

He noted that the Chamorros of Guam liked to eat a local fruit bat, to such an extent that the animals had been hunted to near extinction by the late 1980s.

Enlisting the help of Sandra Banack, an expert on Pacific bats at California State University, Fullerton, Cox tested three specimens of fruit bat collected on Guam in the 1950s, at the height of the epidemic.

At about 5 a.m., the cries of the hammer - headed fruit bats subside.

With the sampling done, Olson hangs the last fruit bat upside - down from a rope.

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.

One of these winners seems destined for Ig Nobel immortality: the epic report «Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time», in PLoS ONE (vol 4, p e7595).

The current Ebola epidemic, the biggest in human history, may have started with the butchering of an infected fruit bat.

Peeping at the private activities of short - nosed fruit bats earned Min Tan and seven colleagues of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China,...