Sentences with phrase «fruit bats on»

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

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

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.

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.

As night goes on, the makeshift lab fills with urine and blood samples from hammer - headed fruit bats.

On many islands, fruit bats are the only pollinators and seed dispersers, especially for fruits with large seeds, says Vincenot.

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

Belonging to the largest group of bats, known to be feeding on insects exclusively, the widely common Black mouse - eared bat (Myotis nigricans) is found to also seek fruits.

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.

But Cox and his colleagues also found BMAA in the brains of Canadian Alzheimer's patients who had never dined on Guam's fruit bats.

Alison is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Environmental Futures Research Institute and the School of Environment at Griffith University, Australia, where she is working with Prof Hamish McCallum on Hendra virus disease dynamics in fruit bats.

Starting off the school day pledging to the fruit bats of Borneo might catch a few people off guard, but it's all part of the Adams School's lesson on pledges and what they say about individuals and the community.

Some herbivores, like fruit bats, live almost exclusively on fruit.

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.

The most shocking courageous jump styles are the handstand, the forward flip, the fruit bat, the bar drop, the BMX (yes, this one is on a bicycle) and the surprise XXXX rated bungy jump which is a top secret method which unless agreed to completely before knowing what it is you will not be able to participate.

The other robo - critter is the BionicFlyingFox, modeled on the enormous fruit bats bearing that name.