Bat, the Glossary
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.[1]
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358 relations: Aestivation, Albacete, American Civil War, Animal echolocation, Animal migration, Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, Anticoagulant, Apache, Apoptosis, Aposematism, Archonta, Arctiinae, Arixeniidae, Artiodactyl, Austin, Texas, Aye-aye, Aztecs, Barotrauma, Basal metabolic rate, Bat, Bat (heraldry), Bat as food, Bat bug, Bat Conservation International, Bat flight, Bat-eared fox, Batman, Bee, Beetle, Bending, Bird of prey, Blood urea nitrogen, Blood vessel, Bone morphogenetic protein, Bone morphogenetic protein 2, Boreoeutheria, Bracken Cave, British hardened field defences of World War II, Brown long-eared bat, Bulldog bat, Caddisfly, Calcium, Capillary, Carl Linnaeus, Carnivora, Cattle, Cave gate, Cervical vertebrae, Cetacea, Cherokee, ... Expand index (308 more) »
- Animal flight
- Animals that use echolocation
- Bats
- Cave mammals
- Nocturnal animals
- Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Aestivation
Aestivation (aestas (summer); also spelled estivation in American English) is a state of animal dormancy, similar to hibernation, although taking place in the summer rather than the winter.
Albacete
Albacete (also) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Animal migration
Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.
Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge
The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge (formerly known simply as the Congress Avenue Bridge) crosses over Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas.
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Anticoagulant
An anticoagulant, commonly known as a blood thinner, is a chemical substance that prevents or reduces the coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time.
Apache
The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language–speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico.
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Apoptosis
Apoptosis (from falling off) is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms and in some eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms such as yeast.
Aposematism
Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating.
Archonta
The Archonta are a now-abandoned group of mammals, considered a superorder in some classifications, which consists of these orders.
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Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.
Arixeniidae
Arixeniidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.
Artiodactyl
Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof).
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.
Aye-aye
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks.
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Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
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Barotrauma
Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between a gas space inside, or in contact with, the body and the surrounding gas or liquid.
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.
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Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera. Bat and Bat are animal flight, animals that use echolocation, bats, cave mammals, nocturnal animals and taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
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Bat (heraldry)
The bat (also called the,, or) is a heraldic symbol sometimes used as a charge, but most prominently used as a crest on or around the crown in municipal arms of the former Crown of Aragon—specifically in Valencia, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
Bat as food
Bats as food are eaten by people in some areas of North America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Rim countries, and some other cultures, including the United States, China, Vietnam, the Seychelles, the Philippines, Indonesia, Palau, Thailand, and Guam.
Bat bug
Bat bugs are parasitic blood-sucking insects that feed primarily on the blood of bats – their hosts.
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Bat Conservation International
Bat Conservation International (BCI) is an international nongovernmental organization working to conserve bats and their habitats through conservation, education, and research efforts.
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Bat flight
Bats are the only mammal capable of true flight. Bat and Bat flight are animal flight.
Bat-eared fox
The bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) is a species of fox found on the African savanna.
Batman
Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.
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Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.
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Bending
In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
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Bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).
Blood urea nitrogen
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is a medical test that measures the amount of urea nitrogen found in blood.
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Blood vessel
Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.
Bone morphogenetic protein
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are a group of growth factors also known as cytokines and as metabologens.
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Bone morphogenetic protein 2
Bone morphogenetic protein 2 or BMP-2 belongs to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins.
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Boreoeutheria
Boreoeutheria ("northern true beasts") is a magnorder of placental mammals that groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.
Bracken Cave
Bracken Cave is the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world.
British hardened field defences of World War II
British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations.
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Brown long-eared bat
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small Eurasian insectivorous bat.
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Bulldog bat
The bat family Noctilionidae, commonly known as bulldog bats or fishing bats, is represented by two extant species, the greater and the lesser bulldog bats, as well as at least one fossil species, Noctilio lacrimaelunaris, from the Miocene of Argentina.
Caddisfly
The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
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Capillary
A capillary is a small blood vessel, from 5 to 10 micrometres in diameter, and is part of the microcirculation system.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Carnivora
Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
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Cave gate
A cave gate is a manmade barricade typically placed at, or just inside, the entrance to a cave in an effort to impede or mitigate human access to a cave's interior.
Cervical vertebrae
In tetrapods, cervical vertebrae (vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
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Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
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Chitinase
Chitinases (chitodextrinase, 1,4-β-poly-N-acetylglucosaminidase, poly-β-glucosaminidase, β-1,4-poly-N-acetyl glucosamidinase, poly glycanohydrolase, (1→4)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glucan glycanohydrolase; systematic name (1→4)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glucan glycanohydrolase) are hydrolytic enzymes that break down glycosidic bonds in chitin.
Christmas Island pipistrelle
The Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) is an extinct species of vesper bat that was found only on Christmas Island, Australia.
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Cimicidae
The Cimicidae are a family of small parasitic bugs that feed exclusively on the blood of warm-blooded animals.
Circulatory system
The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.
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Cistugo
Cistugo is a genus of bats from southern Africa.
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Collagen
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.
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Colugo
Colugos are arboreal gliding mammals that are native to Southeast Asia.
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Common blossom bat
The common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) also known as the southern blossom bat or Queensland blossom bat, is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae.
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Common vampire bat
The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a small, leaf-nosed bat native to the Neotropics.
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Connective tissue
Connective tissue is one of the four primary types of animal tissue, along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue.
Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds.
Count Dracula
Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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Crepuscular animal
In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both.
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Cricket (insect)
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.
Crocodile
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
Current Biology
Current Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Decibel
The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B).
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Demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.
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Dermis
The dermis or corium is a layer of skin between the epidermis (with which it makes up the cutis) and subcutaneous tissues, that primarily consists of dense irregular connective tissue and cushions the body from stress and strain.
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Diagnosis
Diagnosis (diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.
Digestive enzyme
Digestive enzymes take part in the chemical process of digestion, which follows the mechanical process of digestion.
Diurnal cycle
A diurnal cycle (or diel cycle) is any pattern that recurs every 24 hours as a result of one full rotation of the planet Earth around its axis.
Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
Downregulation and upregulation
In biochemistry, in the biological context of organisms' regulation of gene expression and production of gene products, downregulation is the process by which a cell decreases the production and quantities of its cellular components, such as RNA and proteins, in response to an external stimulus.
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Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Earwig
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera.
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Eastern tube-nosed bat
The eastern or Queensland tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni) is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae that lives in north-eastern Australia.
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Eastern United States
The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.
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Echolocation jamming
Echolocation (or sonar) systems of animals, like human radar systems, are susceptible to interference known as echolocation jamming or sonar jamming.
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EDGE species
Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species are animal species which have a high 'EDGE score', a metric combining endangered conservation status with the genetic distinctiveness of the particular taxon.
Egyptian fruit bat
The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is a species of megabat that occurs in Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Indian subcontinent. It is one of three Rousettus species with an African-Malagasy range, though the only species of its genus found on continental Africa.
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Elastic fiber
Elastic fibers (or yellow fibers) are an essential component of the extracellular matrix composed of bundles of proteins (elastin) which are produced by a number of different cell types including fibroblasts, endothelial, smooth muscle, and airway epithelial cells.
Electrolyte
An electrolyte is a medium containing ions that are electrically conductive through the movement of those ions, but not conducting electrons.
Electrolyte imbalance
Electrolyte imbalance, or water-electrolyte imbalance, is an abnormality in the concentration of electrolytes in the body.
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Emballonuridae
Emballonuridae is a family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats.
Emballonuroidea
Emballonuroidea is a superfamily of bats containing two families: Emballonuridae and Nycteridae.
Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
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Embryonic diapause
Embryonic diapause (delayed implantation in mammals) is a reproductive strategy used by a number of animal species across different biological classes.
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Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
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Epidermis
The epidermis is the outermost of the three layers that comprise the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis.
Etruscan shrew
The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), also known as the Etruscan pygmy shrew, white-toothed pygmy shrew and Savi's pygmy shrew, is the smallest known extant mammal by mass, weighing only about on average.
Euarchontoglires
Euarchontoglires (from: Euarchonta ("true rulers") + Glires ("dormice")), synonymous with Supraprimates, is a clade and a superorder of mammals, the living members of which belong to one of the five following groups: rodents, lagomorphs, treeshrews, primates, and colugos.
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla (which means "truly fat and blind") is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, which includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs, golden moles, and otter shrews, now in their own order Afrosoricida).
Falcon
Falcons are birds of prey in the genus Falco, which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica, though closely related raptors did occur there in the Eocene.
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Ferae
Ferae ("wild beasts") is a mirorder of placental mammalsMalcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
Ferungulata
Ferungulata ("wild beasts and ungulates") is a grandorder of placental mammals that groups together mirorder Ferae and clade Pan-Euungulata.
Fission–fusion society
In ethology, fission–fusion society is one in which the size and composition of the social group change as time passes and animals move throughout the environment; animals merge into a group (fusion)—e.g. sleeping in one place—or split (fission)—e.g. foraging in small groups during the day.
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Flea
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
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Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
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Flying primate hypothesis
In evolutionary biology, the flying primate hypothesis is that megabats, a subgroup of Chiroptera (also known as flying foxes), form an evolutionary sister group of primates. Bat and flying primate hypothesis are bats.
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Flying squirrel
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae.
Fraga
Fraga is the major town of the comarca of Bajo Cinca (Baix Cinca) in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.
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Free-tailed bat
The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.
Fresnel lens
A Fresnel lens is a type of composite compact lens which reduces the amount of material required compared to a conventional lens by dividing the lens into a set of concentric annular sections.
Fringe-lipped bat
The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is a leaf-nosed bat from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil.
Frugivore
A frugivore is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Furipteridae
Furipteridae is family of bats, allying two genera of single species, Amorphochilus schnablii (smoky bat) and the type Furipterus horrens (thumbless bat).
Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Ghost bat
The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) is a species of bat found in northern Australia.
Giant golden-crowned flying fox
The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the golden-capped fruit bat, is a species of megabat endemic to the Philippines.
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Gibbon
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae.
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Gliding flight
Gliding flight is heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust; the term volplaning also refers to this mode of flight in animals. Bat and Gliding flight are animal flight.
Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.
Greater bulldog bat
The greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a species of fishing bat native to Latin America (Spanish: murciélago pescador; Portuguese: morcego-pescador).
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Greater horseshoe bat
The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) is an insectivorous bat of the genus Rhinolophus.
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Greater mouse-eared bat
The greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Greater noctule bat
The greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) is a rare carnivorous bat found in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa.
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Greater sac-winged bat
The greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) is a bat of the family Emballonuridae native to Central and South America.
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Greater short-nosed fruit bat
The greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx), or short-nosed Indian fruit bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in South and Southeast Asia.
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Greater spear-nosed bat
The greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) is a bat species of the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America.
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Green River Formation
The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
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Ground speed
Ground speed is the horizontal speed of an aircraft relative to the Earth’s surface.
Guano
Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
Hair follicle
The hair follicle is an organ found in mammalian skin.
Hairless bat
The hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus), also called the naked bulldog batLeong, T. M., et al.
Hairy-legged vampire bat
The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats.
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Hammer-headed bat
The hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), also known as hammer-headed fruit bat, big-lipped bat, and hammerhead bat, is a megabat widely distributed in West and Central Africa.
Hassianycteris
Hassianycteris is an extinct genus of Early Eocene (Ypresian) to Middle Eocene (Lutetian) bats from the Hassianycterididae with four or five known species: the type (H. messelensis), H. magna, and H. revilliodi, all found in the Messel pit, Germany, H. kumari, found in the Cambay Shale Formation (Vastan Lignite Mine), India, and the possible fifth species "H." joeli, found in the Kortijk Clay Formation, Belgium, which may instead belong to Onychonycteridae.
Hawk
Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
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Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.
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Hematophagy
Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φαγεῖν phagein "to eat").
Henipavirus
Henipavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing six established species, and numerous others still under study.
Heterothermy
Heterothermy or heterothermia (from Greek ἕτερος heteros "other" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is a physiological term for animals that vary between self-regulating their body temperature, and allowing the surrounding environment to affect it.
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Hipposideridae
The Hipposideridae are a family of bats commonly known as the Old World leaf-nosed bats.
Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Homeothermy
Homeothermy, homothermy or homoiothermy is thermoregulation that maintains a stable internal body temperature regardless of external influence.
Horseshoe bat
Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae.
Human digestive system
The human digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder).
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.
Icaronycteris
Icaronycteris is an extinct genus of microchiropteran (echolocating) bat that lived in the early Eocene, approximately, making it the earliest bat genus known from complete skeletons, and the earliest known bat from North America.
Indian flying fox
The Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, formerly Pteropus giganteus), also known as the greater Indian fruit bat, is a species of flying fox native to the Indian subcontinent.
Insectivore
robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects.
Jamaican fruit bat
The Jamaican, common, or Mexican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a frugivorous bat species native to the Neotropics.
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist.
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Journal of General Virology
Journal of General Virology is a not-for-profit peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Microbiology Society.
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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel (born August 31, 1967) is a Canadian children's writer.
Kidney
In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.
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Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a near-threatened species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae.
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Larco Museum
The Larco Museum (officially known as Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum, in Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru.
Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
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Laurasiatheria
Laurasiatheria ("laurasian beasts") is a superorder of placental mammals that groups together true insectivores (eulipotyphlans), bats (chiropterans), carnivorans, pangolins (pholidotes), even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls), odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), and all their extinct relatives.
Leading edge
The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air;Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 305.
Leaf-nosed bat
The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are bats found from southern North America to South America, specifically from the Southwest United States to northern Argentina.
Lek mating
A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate.
Lesser bushbaby
Lesser bushbabies, or lesser galagos, are strepsirrhine primates of the genus Galago.
Lesser mouse-eared bat
The lesser mouse-eared bat or lesser mouse-eared myotis (Myotis blythii) is a species of insectivorous bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Liminal being
Liminal beings are entities that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence.
List of bats of the United States
All bat species in the United States are insectivorous except for three nectar-eating species that migrate from Mexico and one fruit-eating species that inhabits the Florida Keys.
See Bat and List of bats of the United States
Little brown bat
The little brown bat or little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) is an endangered species of mouse-eared microbat found in North America.
Little yellow-shouldered bat
The little yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira lilium) is a bat species from South and Central America.
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Long-tongued nectar bat
The long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), also known as the northern blossom bat, honey nectar bat, least blossom-bat, dagger-toothed long-nosed fruit bat, and lesser long-tongued fruit bat, is a species of megabat.
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Louse
Louse (lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.
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Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
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Macbeth
Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
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Magnetite
Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula.
Magnetoreception
Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field.
Malaysian Wildlife Law
Malaysian Wildlife Law (Undang-Undang Hidupan Liar Malaysia) consists of the regulation, protection, conservation and management of wildlife in Malaysia.
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Maltase
Maltase is an informal name for a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of disaccharide maltose into two simple sugars of glucose.
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Maltose
Maltose, also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond. In the isomer isomaltose, the two glucose molecules are joined with an α(1→6) bond. Maltose is the two-unit member of the amylose homologous series, the key structural motif of starch.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
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Maternity colony
A maternity colony refers to a temporary association of reproductive female bats for giving birth to, nursing, and weaning their pups. Bat and maternity colony are bats.
Mating plug
A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, sperm plug, vaginal plug, or sphragis (Latin, from Greek σφραγίς sphragis, "a seal"), is a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species.
Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
Mayfly
Mayflies (also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern United States, as Canadian soldiers in the American Great Lakes region, and as up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.
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Mechanical advantage
Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.
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Megabat
Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).
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Megadermatidae
Megadermatidae, or false vampire bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia.
Merkel cell
Merkel cells, also known as Merkel–Ranvier cells or tactile epithelial cells, are oval-shaped mechanoreceptors essential for light touch sensation and found in the skin of vertebrates.
Mesopic vision
Mesopic vision, sometimes also called twilight vision, is a combination of photopic and scotopic vision under low-light (but not necessarily dark) conditions.
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
Mexican free-tailed bat
The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to the Americas, so named because its tail can be almost half its total length and is not attached to its uropatagium. Bat and Mexican free-tailed bat are cave mammals.
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Microbat
Microbats constitute the suborder Microchiroptera within the order Chiroptera (bats). Bat and Microbat are animals that use echolocation.
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Mid-Atlantic (United States)
The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the United States located in the overlap between the Northeastern and Southeastern states of the United States.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
Miniopterus
Miniopterus, known as the bent-winged or long winged bats, is the sole genus of the family Miniopteridae.
Mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).
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Monogamy in animals
Monogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Montchauvet, Yvelines
Montchauvet is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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Mormoopidae
The family Mormoopidae contains bats known generally as mustached bats, ghost-faced bats, and naked-backed bats.
Mormoops
Mormoops is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae.
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Mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.
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Mosquito-borne disease
Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Mouse lemur
The mouse lemurs are nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus.
Mouse-eared bat
The mouse-eared bats or myotises are a diverse and widespread genus (Myotis) of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.
Mouse-tailed bat
Mouse-tailed bats are a group of insectivorous microbats of the family Rhinopomatidae with only three to six species, all contained in the single genus Rhinopoma.
Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
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Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States.
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Mystacinidae
Mystacinidae is a family of unusual bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bats.
Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
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Myzopoda
Myzopoda, which has two described species, is the only genus in the bat family Myzopodidae.
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Natalidae
The family Natalidae, or funnel-eared bats, are found from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Natural reservoir
In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
Nectarivore
In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.
Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
Nerve
A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system.
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New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
The New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) is a small-sized omnivorous mammal endemic to the islands of New Zealand.
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Nitrifying bacteria
Nitrifying bacteria are chemolithotrophic organisms that include species of genera such as Nitrosomonas, Nitrosococcus, Nitrobacter, Nitrospina, Nitrospira and Nitrococcus.
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Noctilionoidea
Noctilionoidea is a superfamily of bats containing seven families: Thyropteridae, Furipteridae, Noctilionidae, Mormoopidae, Phyllostomidae, Myzopodidae, and Mystacinidae.
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. Bat and Nocturnality are nocturnal animals.
Nose-leaf
A nose-leaf, or leaf nose, is an often large, lance-shaped nose, found in bats of the Phyllostomidae, Hipposideridae, and Rhinolophidae families. Bat and nose-leaf are bats.
Nycteribiidae
Nycteribiidae is a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea.
Nycteris
Nycteris comprises a genus of bats commonly called slit-faced or hollow-faced bats.
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Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.
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Onychonycteris
Onychonycteris is the more primitive of the three oldest bats known from complete skeletons, having lived in the area that is current day Wyoming during the Eocene period, 52.5 million years ago.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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Pacific Rim
The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
Palaeochiropteryx
Palaeochiropteryx is an extinct genus of bat from the Middle Eocene of Europe and North America.
Pallid bat
The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of bat that ranges from western Canada to central Mexico.
Palma de Mallorca
Palma, also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain.
Pangolin
Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota.
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Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Patagium
The patagium (patagia) is a membranous body part that assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
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Peel (fruit)
Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of ungulates.
Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
Photopic vision
Photopic vision is the vision of the eye under well-lit conditions (luminance levels from 10 to 108 cd/m2).
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
Piscivore
A piscivore is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish.
Placentalia
Placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia) are one of the three extant subdivisions of the class Mammalia, the other two being Monotremata and Marsupialia.
Pollinator
A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.
Polygyny in animals
Polygyny (from Neo-Greek) is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a few males.
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Popobawa
Popobawa, also Popo Bawa, is the name of an evil spirit or shetani, which is believed by residents of Zanzibar to have first appeared on the Tanzanian island of Pemba.
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Potassium nitrate
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Primate
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.
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Pseudogymnoascus destructans
Pseudogymnoascus destructans (formerly known as Geomyces destructans) is a psychrophilic (cold-loving) fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fatal disease that has devastated bat populations in parts of the United States and Canada.
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Pteronotus
Pteronotus is a genus of bats.
Pteropus
Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.
Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals.
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Radius (bone)
The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.
Rate-of-living theory
The rate of living theory postulates that the faster an organism’s metabolism, the shorter its lifespan.
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Renal medulla
The renal medulla (Latin: medulla renis 'marrow of the kidney') is the innermost part of the kidney.
Respiratory system
The respiratory system (also respiratory apparatus, ventilatory system) is a biological system consisting of specific organs and structures used for gas exchange in animals and plants.
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Rhinolophoidea
Rhinolophoidea is a superfamily of bats.
Rhinonycteridae
Rhinonycteridae is a family of bats, within to the suborder Yinpterochiroptera.
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
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Rousettus
Rousettus is a genus of Old World fruit bats or megabats, referred to as rousette bats.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.
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SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Sclerotization
Sclerotization is a biochemical process that produces the rigid shell of sclerotin that comprises an insect's chitinous exoskeleton.
Scrotifera
Scrotifera ("scrotum bearers") is a clade of placental mammals that groups together grandorder Ferungulata, Chiroptera (bats), other extinct members and their common ancestors.
Seed dispersal
In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
Shear stress
Shear stress (often denoted by, Greek: tau) is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.
Shunt (medical)
In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage that moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another.
Siberian bat
The Siberian bat or Siberian whiskered myotis (Myotis sibiricus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
Silver-haired bat
The silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) is a solitary migratory species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae and the only member of the genus Lasionycteris.
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Skeleton
A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals.
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Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
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Sloth
Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths.
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Small flying fox
The small flying fox, island flying fox or variable flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae.
Smallest organisms
The smallest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of organism size, including volume, mass, height, length, or genome size.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's bodies or appearances.
Sodomy
Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality).
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Soul
In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.
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Spectral bat
The spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum), also called the great false vampire bat, great spectral bat, American false vampire bat or Linnaeus's false vampire bat, is a large, carnivorous leaf-nosed bat found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Sphincter
A sphincter is a circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.
Spotted bat
The spotted bat (Euderma maculatum) is a species of vesper bat and the only species of the genus Euderma.
Stall (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.
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Streblidae
The Streblidae are a family of flies in the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, and together with their relatives the Nycteribiidae, are known as bat flies.
Stress (mechanics)
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.
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Stroke volume
In cardiovascular physiology, stroke volume (SV) is the volume of blood pumped from the ventricle per beat.
Sucrase
Sucrases are digestive enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sucrose to its component monosaccharides, fructose and glucose.
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Swarm behaviour
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction.
Sweat gland
Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands,, are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat.
Sympatry
In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.
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Taphozous
Taphozous is a genus of the family Emballonuridae.
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
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Termite
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
Thermal conductivity and resistivity
The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat.
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Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
Three Witches
The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, Weyward Sisters or Wayward Sisters, are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).
Thyroptera
Disk-winged bats are a small group of bats of the family Thyropteridae and genus Thyroptera.
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.
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Tongue
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod.
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Tooth enamel
Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many animals, including some species of fish.
Torpor
Torpor is a state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually marked by a reduced body temperature and metabolic rate.
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Tragus (ear)
The tragus is a small pointed eminence of the external ear, situated in front of the concha, and projecting backward over the meatus.
Trailing edge
The trailing edge of an aerodynamic surface such as a wing is its rear edge, where the airflow separated by the leading edge meets.
Treeshrew
The treeshrews (also called tree shrews or banxrings) are small mammals native to the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia.
Trickster
In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
Tube-lipped nectar bat
The tube-lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) is a bat from Ecuador.
See Bat and Tube-lipped nectar bat
Tympanal organ
A tympanal organ (or tympanic organ) is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air sac and associated sensory neurons.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
Ungulate
Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
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Urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.
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Uterine horns
The uterine horns (cornua of uterus) are the points in the upper uterus where the fallopian tubes or oviducts exit to meet the ovaries.
Valencia
Valencia (officially in Valencian: València) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain.
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Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
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Vampire bat
Vampire bats, members of the subfamily Desmodontinae, are leaf-nosed bats currently found in Central and South America.
Varney the Vampire
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian-era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.
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Vein
Veins are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart.
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Vespertilio
Vespertilio is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae.
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats.
Vespertilionoidea
Vespertilionoidea is a superfamily of bats containing five families: Cistugidae, Miniopteridae, Molossidae, Natalidae, and Vespertilionidae.
Virginia big-eared bat
The Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) is one of two endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat.
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Visual acuity
Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision, but technically rates an animal's ability to recognize small details with precision.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid and ascorbate) is a water-soluble vitamin found in citrus and other fruits, berries and vegetables.
Vortex
In fluid dynamics, a vortex (vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved.
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Vortex lift
Vortex lift is that portion of lift due to the action of leading edge vortices.
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
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Wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two coherent waves are combined by adding their intensities or displacements with due consideration for their phase difference.
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
White-nose syndrome
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease in North American bats which has resulted in the dramatic decrease of the bat population in the United States and Canada, reportedly killing millions as of 2018.
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White-winged vampire bat
The white-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi), a species of vampire bat, is the only member of the genus Diaemus.
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Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom implemented to comply with European Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy.
Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.
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World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) is a nonprofit educational company created in 2009 by Jan van der Crabben.
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Yangochiroptera
Yangochiroptera, or Vespertilioniformes, is a suborder of Chiroptera that includes most of the microbat families, except the Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, and Megadermatidae.
Yinpterochiroptera
The Yinpterochiroptera (or Pteropodiformes) is a suborder of the Chiroptera, which includes taxa formerly known as megabats and five of the microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, and Megadermatidae.
See Bat and Yinpterochiroptera
Yuma myotis
The Yuma myotis (Myotis yumanensis) is a species of vesper bat native to western North America.
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
See Bat and Yunnan
Zaire ebolavirus
Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus (EBOV), is one of six known species within the genus Ebolavirus.
Zapotec civilization
The Zapotec civilization ("The People"; 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.
See Bat and Zapotec civilization
Zoonosis
A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa.
See Bat and Zoonosis
See also
Animal flight
- Alate
- Bat
- Bat flight
- Bat wing development
- Bats
- Bird flight
- David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D
- Flapping counter-torque
- Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
- Flying and gliding animals
- Gliding animals
- Gliding flight
- Hypuronector
- Insect flight
- Insect wing
- Lift (soaring)
- List of soaring birds
- Microraptor
- Nuptial flight
- Pterosaurs
- Unpowered flight
- Winged horses
Animals that use echolocation
- Aerodramus
- Bat
- Bats
- Blarina
- Brown rat
- Cephalorhynchus
- Common shrew
- Dolphin
- Kogiidae
- La Plata dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus
- Microbat
- Moby Doll's impact in scientific research
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Oilbird
- Orca
- Pilot whale
- Porpoise
- River dolphin
- Sorex
- Sperm whale
- Swiftlet
- Tenrec
- Toothed whale
- Toothed whales
- Vagrant shrew
Bats
- Bat
- Bat conservation
- Bat species identification
- Bat virome
- Bat1K
- Bats in culture
- Broadly Applicable Tracking System
- Cynopterinae
- Doppler shift compensation
- Eptesicini
- Flying primate hypothesis
- List of bats
- List of bats by population
- List of fictional bats
- Maternity colony
- Nose-leaf
- Paul Racey
- Synemporion
- What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
- Wildlife Acoustics
Cave mammals
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Bat
- Cuban greater funnel-eared bat
- Eastern small-footed myotis
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Savi's pipistrelle
Nocturnal animals
- Aardwolf
- Abraxas celidota
- Bat
- Bats
- Bolitoglossa aurae
- Hoggicosa natashae
- List of nocturnal animals
- List of nocturnal birds
- Nocturnal house
- Nocturnality
- Owls
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- African bush elephant
- Bat
- Cemophora coccinea
- Cemophora coccinea coccinea
- Central chimpanzee
- Chimpanzee
- Irish elk
- Marmot
- Woolly mammoth
- Woolly rhinoceros
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat
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