Sentences with phrase «with fruit bats»

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

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This winsome little tale about a fruit bat that lives with birds is not only educational but it's sweet and fun.

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.

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).

Fruit Bats — This is an idea I came up with for my daughter's Halloween party at school.

For one thing, Meliandou is not located near fruit bat roosting sites where the child might have come in contact with an infected animal or tainted fruit, and there is no evidence that the family ate fruit bats.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

An adult male Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) with his cheek pouches full of figs in Kenya.

Many millions of years ago, we lost all ability to convert glucose to vitamin C (along with subhuman primates, guinea pigs, and fruit bats).

In fact we belong to a very tiny group of mammals (including fruit bats and guinea pigs) that don't make their own Vitamin C. Because Vitamin C performs so many functions and we use so much of it in the course of a day almost everyone can benefit from supplementing with extra Vitamin C. Up to 1,000 to 2000 mgs a day is fine; it's water soluble and what you don't use will just be excreted.

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

I pledge allegiance to United Turtles of America and to the fruit bats of Borneo, one planet in the Milky Way, incredible, with justice and black bean burritos for all.

Although Stellaluna is a fruit bat, she tries to fit in with the customs of the birds by eating insects, sleeping at night, and she sleeps in their nest instead of hanging upside down by her feet.

Unlike fruit bats, orangutans, and other animals with raging sweet teeth, rabbits have evolved to eat predominantly grasses and other vegetable matter.

She's worked with many exotic such as fruit bats, cheetahs and rhinos.

Just 5 km north of the picnic area, you will find Bats Caves, which is filled with many fruit eating bBats Caves, which is filled with many fruit eating batsbats.

Located 250 kilometers from Manila, the Hundred Islands National Park, declared in 1940 by Pres. Manuel Quezon, is a sprinkling of 123 islets in a beautiful tropical sea with white sand beaches, caves, and habitat to various species of birds and fruit bats.

The ceiling is alive with thousands of fluttering, squawking, vibrating, long nose fruit bats.

You start with the cat - like creavure Bitey and as you progress through the 15 stages and 2 boss battles you acquire the remaining four creavures to use: Pokey the porcupine, Zappy the lizard, Rolly the armadillo and Glidey the fruit bat.

From the Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organization that works with local scientists around the globe to encourage wildlife and habitat conservation, comes news of the world's largest fruit bat — a furry critter with a 5 - foot wingspan known as the flying fox.

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

The clade Chiroptera includes species with very diverse food preferences, including bats that eat either meat, insects, fish, fruit, nectar, or a variety of food types.

Yesterday Aardvark blogged about the desecration of the D Day beaches by bird choppers and finished the post with, «Now if the area around the Normandy beaches were home to a threatened species of aquatic fruit bat then every NGO from Greenpeace to the WWF would be up in arms.»