Sentences with phrase «of fruit bat»

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.

Read aloud Stellaluna by Janell Cannon so students might hear this story of a fruit bat that lived with a bird family.

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

The sugary, acidic diet of a fruit bat would corrode the teeth of just about any other mammal.

To give you an idea of the size of a fruit bat, it weighs roughly 30 grams and a single fully extended wing is about 17 x 9 cm in length, according to Tafti.

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.

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.

Anatomist Elizabeth Dumont of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine thought that the saliva of fruit bats might buffer the acids in their food, thus protecting their teeth.

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.

A giant hollow tree is an interesting home to a large number of fruit bats.

A large group of Fruit bats...

The island itself has a lake at its centre and is home to a large colony of Fruit Bats, every evening at sunset these bats awake from their day of slumber and leave their small island in search of food.

This underground river is surrounded by breathtaking rock formations and colonies of fruit bats that create an otherworldly atmosphere.

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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.

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.

The closed door symbolizes the «obstinately shut mind»; the weeds represent «the cumber of daily neglect»; the orchard signifies «the garden of delectable fruit for the dainty feast of the soul»; a bat flitting about is «a natural symbol of ignorance»; the lamp alludes to Psalm 119: «Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.»

None of us bat an eyelash at the notion of slathering peanut butter all over a slice of bread and then crowning it with fruit preserves, nor do we think twice about mixing chili powder and garlic into a peanut butter base and drizzling it all over our Asian pot stickers.

And so, Stellaluna lived with the chickens that were to follow, and she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other bats).

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Leendertz says he can't completely rule out fruit bats, but thinks the insect - eaters are a more likely source of the initial transmission into people.

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

Biologists trap and sample giant fruit bats, the suspected reservoir of the deadly virus Learn more.

The greater short - nosed fruit bat can be found in the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia.

«We need to reevaluate the whole hypothesis starting right back at the fruit bats of Guam,» he says.

Compared with the amount of BMAA found in the fruit bats of Guam, the levels of the toxin Brand found in Florida oysters and mussels were moderate.

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

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

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.

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

At a rainforest camp, a team of researchers works deep into the night to snare and sample fruit bats.

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.

It is a fruit bat and was trapped, tested and released by Goldberg's colleague and study co-author Robert Kityo of Uganda's Makerere University in Kampala.

Thomas Kunz of Boston University and his team observed a captive colony of the Rodrigues fruit - eating bat (Pteropus rodricensis) in Gainesville, Florida.

To Dumont's surprise, the saliva of some old - world fruit bats was just as acidic after their food had cleared the mouth and digestive system, 20 minutes later, and remained so for six hours.

But most of the bats he captured at the clay lick were fruit - eating bats — and many of them were pregnant or lactating.

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.

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.

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

«Black mouse - eared bat goes green: First case of a fruit - eating bat in the largest genus.»

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.

The unexpected first documentation of fruit consumption in this group of bats happened when the researchers captured a number of bats with mist - nets and kept them alone in cotton bags for about thirty minutes before handling for identification and biometry.

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 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.

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

It is home to a group of small, fruit - eating bats ranging from half - an - ounce to three ounces in size.

He believes the disease, which in its worst form can cause uncontrollable haemorrhaging and an agonising death, could turn up at any time, courtesy of a roving fruit bat.

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

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

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.