Sentences with phrase «like birds and bats»

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

Also, evolutionary theory does state animals sharing a certain characteristic can possess a similarity without sharing an immediate common ancestor like a bird and bat wing.

Not exact matches

All they can ever give me is that there's «errors» or «inconsistancies»... and if I get someone to give me an example, it's garbage like «bats aren't birds» that has been explained over and over again.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

Birds are further removed from us than bats, and although we can not know exactly what it is like to be one, we have learned enough about their senses to get a fair idea.

Indeed, expanding the survey to include the bats» compatriots of the skies: woodpeckers, egrets, hummingbirds, and other birds, showed that the genome dynamcis of the two flying mammal species was more like that of the birds than the land - bound mammals.

Flying mammals also survived more on average: «If we split mammals into bats and nonflying mammals, bats behave kind of like the birds.»

Fossil records show that their unique limbs could have supported flight, but unlike bat wings or bird wings, they were made of a living membrane reinforced with muscle and tissue, stretched like a sail over a single long bone.

The chase goes on far too long, prolonged by Dundee employing tactics like bird calls, bat bait, and a crocodile hide.

While this fungus can be found anywhere, it likes warm, moist environments best, and thrives especially well in soil that contains bird or bat waste.

Her zoo, nestled amongst a beautiful garden of native plants, is made up of a collection of exotic birds, butterflies, and other wildlife like civets, a monitor lizard, a sugar glider and a surprisingly tame bat.

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.

Peninsula Nicoya is scattered with natural reserves where you can spot animals like monkeys, birds, snakes and bats.

It is a good habitat for wild animal like monkeys, bat and bird.

The enemies in this game consists exclusively of wild ravaging animals like bats, killer birds, mountain goats and crabs.

Other bugs, like wasps, flies, beetles, and butterflies — even bats and birds — pollinate the world's plants.

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

And with respect to bird - blending in particular, are you aware of any credible studies which compare the number of avians, you know, bats, eagles and the like, per megawatt it takAnd with respect to bird - blending in particular, are you aware of any credible studies which compare the number of avians, you know, bats, eagles and the like, per megawatt it takand the like, per megawatt it takes?

The argument that other things kill birds and bats, and that fossil carbon is bad, falls to the ground like a Peregrine Falcon at Ivanpah Solar with its wings burnt, when you ask how effective wind turbines have been in putting coal mines and gas pipelines, and sounding for oil in the Arctic, out of business.

In the battle for hearts and minds, the one issue that seems to annoy the wind industry like a burr under a frisky pony's saddle blanket is the wholesale slaughter of millions of birds and bats.

**** The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats — including rare, endangered and majestic species, like America's iconic bald and golden eagles — is one of the many «inconvenient» facts that moves the wind industry to lie like fury and — when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails -LSB-...]

«We dream of a big guerrilla action where people install spaces like this for bats and birds all over the cities,» Wegworth says.»