Sentences with phrase «with vampire bats»

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.

But strict reciprocity doesn't completely describe what's going on with vampire bats, primates, humans, dolphins, elephants, and other social animals.

Not exact matches

The gnawing anxiety sticks to you like a vampire bat, leeching the joy and peace out of situations that have nothing to do with...

At one recent session the room was hung with miniature vampire bats and decorated with Dracula cartoons.

Vampire bats are extremely intelligent: They have a social order that's similar to that of other primates, they share food and information with their brethren, and they even adopt orphans.

Bill Schutt skims the clotted clumps from fresh cow blood with a spaghetti strainer before his vampire bats feed.

Gerald Carter spends hours watching vampire bats share their meals with one another.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

We also learn how bees broadcast the locations of flowers through choreographed dance and how vampire bats share their blood meals even with non-relatives.

Captive vampire bats that shared blood with non-kin reaped benefits.

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.

Vampire bats devote more of their space to the long tubules that deal with reabsorbing useful substances from just - made urine, he notes.

It has therefore been long suspected that vampire bats have highly specific evolutionary adaptations, which would be documented in their genome, and most likely also have an unusual microbiome, the community of micro-organisms assembled in their digestive tract which may help with the digestion of blood.

His creative world is populated by grotesque creatures, trimmed with a hocus pocus collection of vampires, bats and spiders, littered with bare - boned figures and dismembered body parts, threatened by an evil Oogie Boogie Man, (voice of Ken Page), and decorated with depictions of female victimization, torture and poisoning.

The action is turn - based, with both the player and the various blobs, vampire bats and skeletons getting a good old swipe every time you click.

She's desperate for a pair of plastic fangs so she can trick or treat as a vampire bat on Halloween, with tomato sauce dribbling down her chin as fake blood.