Sentences with phrase «other bat species»

Infrared camera footage of wild bat colonies inhabited by M. myotis and two other bat species showed that vertical plastic plates trick bats in natural settings, as well.

Not exact matches

Unlike other bats, this species can not crawl on its thumbs and toes, and its ears are so sensitive it can hear the footsteps of a cricket.

Like nectar bats, many species of hawk moths (sometimes called sphinx moths) can reach nectar inaccessible to other flying creatures.

Its leisurely, aerobatic flight pattern suggests the species makes its living in a very different way from the other bats in this cave.

The culprit in that outbreak was the Chinese horseshoe bat, which was stored in cages next to other species for sale.

Rather than feeding on bat guano like many other cave cockroaches, the new species instead graze on bacteria and fungi.

Insects are in turn a vital food source for fish, river birds and bats, so where there are healthy insect populations these other species also benefit.

Other vocal - learning species, such as whales, bats, elephants, and seals, may also rely on the gene.

They also have a bigger brain, relative to their size, than most other species of bats.

It does, however, appear to have been our companion since we first took to dwelling in caves: At least 12 species of blood - sucking Cimex bugs are parasites of bats, and many others feed on cave - nesting birds.

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.

Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) samples from Mexico and from the Berlin Zoological Garden revealed a new endogenous retrovirus (named DrERV after Desmodus rotundus endogenous retrovirus) that is also present in rodents and primates but is absent in other closely related bat species.

Work was also delayed on other invasive species projects, including research on the spread of dangerous Africanized honeybees in the Southwest, invasive grass species involved in intensifying wildfires, and white - nose bat syndrome impacting bats in national parks.»

With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

Also the species composition of bats seems to play a role: Colonies with vampire bats, feeding on other animal's blood, supply more nitrogen to the trees than those without vampire bats.

The researchers found that some species, like bats and whales, hardly ever kill each other.

The researchers found twice as many changes in the bat's FOXP2 sequence as they found in all the other species combined — indicative of rapid evolution.

Their genetic analysis encompassed 20 species of bats and nine other mammals.

New experiments suggest that members of one species of these furry flyers — Myotis myotis, the greater mouse - eared bat — can do something no other mammal is known to do: They detect and use polarized light to calibrate their long - distance navigation.

The isolates with the strongest inhibitory properties were cultured from a bat species that has suffered lower mortality from white - nose syndrome than other species.

Besides these bats (and it's not known whether other species of bat can do this, too), researchers have found that certain insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians can navigate using polarized light.

«Most coronaviruses come from bats, but once they jump to other species, you could never get them to reinfect bat cells.»

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.

Compared with bats of other species, the common vampire bat may even seem to have superpower moves: Instead of just flying, it easily runs on the ground.

Though it's rare for plants to use sound as an attraction tactic, there are other species that employ this technique, like some bat - pollinated plants in the Neotropics; this, however, is the first example of a plant that doesn't use the strategy for pollination.

The others could be recent imports or may have lurked unnoticed in Australia's bats, jumping species only when people and their domestic animals began to encroach further into bat habitat.

The researchers compared the wings of the earliest known bat fossil, a 50 - million - year - old specimen housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, with those of three other species of extinct bats and 10 species of modern bats.

This distinguishes the long - eared bats from other species that have been studied and indicates that the large ears do not merely create strong resistance, but also assist the animal in staying aloft,» says Christoffer Johansson Westheim.

As I reported in a feature story in Scientific American last December, some fungi have been behaving badly of late, attacking bats, plants, amphibians, reptiles, and people with gusto, driving many species to extinction and others to the brink.

«We know that females from other species with low birth rates (like bats) are very choosy when it comes to mate selection, «says Pablo Santos, lead author of the study.

The «hippocampal theta rhythm» is a strong oscillation that can be observed in the hippocampus and other brain structures in numerous species of mammals including rodents, rabbits, dogs, cats, bats, and marsupials.

Nationwide rabies commonly occurs in bats, skunks, fox, coyotes, raccoons, and a wide variety of other wildlife species.

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In fact, in addition to monkeys, cats, bats, and countless other animal species, dogs are the common victims of cruel testing.

The technology developed also could be adapted to protect bats against other diseases, such as Ebola and SARS - like coronaviruses, which affect them and other species coming into contact with bats.

Dogs, skunks, foxes, raccoons and bats do have endemic rabies strains, can carry and transmit rabies for days, weeks, or even months before succumbing to it, and are therefore magnitudes of order more likely to spread rabies than cats, rodents, and other species who tend to die soon if infected.

Stating «feral / free - roaming cats may transmit rabies, toxoplasmosis and other parasitic diseases to both humans and wildlife» implies cats are the only risk factors when bats, raccoons and other species can transmit rabies & parasitic diseases.

The Caroni Bird Sanctuary is a mangrove wetlands preserve and home to numerous species of indigenous birds, bats, snakes, fish, and other wildlife.

Species that reached the islands were aerial, such as birds and bats, or rafted across the water on debris and other material.

The privileged position of this eco-lodge will allow you to observe over 400 species of birds (such as the Scarlet Macaw) and poison dart frogs, deer, jaguars, wild pigs, bats, raccoons, anteaters, lizards and several types of monkeys (spider and howler monkeys) and other jungle creatures.

White Nose Syndrome is known to affect all six species of hibernating bats that occur in the northeastern U.S. and has recently been confirmed in three other species — making the total number of species affected at nine.

As the little brown myotis population in northeast shrinks, are there other species of bat (or bird or...) that tend to fill the vacated insectivore niche?

A study in January of this year co-authored by Steadman showed that the first humans to arrive in the area depleted small species like bats; this latest research shows that other species were lost to human activities like hunting and human - ignited wildfires.

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

Populations of wild bees and other pollinating species, including butterflies and moths, birds and bats, are being pushed to extinction at startling rates.

Shouldn't they be required for eagles and falcons — and for hawks, ducks, flycatchers, bats and other protected species?

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

This carnage includes protected species that cars and cats rarely kill: eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, condors, whooping cranes, geese, bats and many others.

In stark and indefensible contrast, enormous offshore wind turbines continue to get a free pass from bird, bat, whale and other species protection laws.

The sheer ruggedness, proximity to water and lower elevation provides important habitat for wildlife, including black bears, bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, American pine martins, mountain lions, eagles, falcons, imperiled bats, and many other species of wildlife.