New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
... to give barcoding the toughest test possible. The bats of Guyana have been the subject of intensive taxon...looked bats." Stray hairs could tell the kind of bats in your belfry -- or which bats are bumping into wind turbines, whose blades whack thousands of the ......l the night before. It appears that Egyptian fruit bats also crave particular types of sugar to reduce the...h as figs and dates, as they ripen. Egyptian fruit bats prefer these fruits when they are ripe, however high concentrations of ethanol (around 1%) are toxic...Flowers shape themselves to guide their pollinators to the pollen
...ialize on different pollinators? For example, both bats and hummingbirds pollinate plants in tropical fore...that the fit between flower and pollinator is key: bats pollinate wide flowers better, while hummingbirds transfer more pollen between narrow flowers. Video...Use of wind energy in US growing, but planning and guidelines are lacking
...l level, by damaging habitat and killing birds and bats that fly into turbines. Among birds, the most fre... indicates that in the mid-Atlantic highlands more bats are killed than expected based on experience with other regions, the committee said. Although scarc......re Caribbean bat community, encompassing groups of bats as different from each other as aerial insectivore...res, and frugivores. The evolution of Caribbean bats suggests that far from being isolated destinations, the West Indies have had a dynamic, two-way rela...Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks
...s likely caused by the collapsible membrane of the bats wing, which needs to maintain some degree of tensi...id to them because of their nocturnal habits. Most bats eat flying insects, consuming up to their body weight each night. Their agility and tremendous abil...Getting to the core of an emergent public health threat
...ed to animals that live close to humans, including bats and cat-like animals called civets. So, while SARS may have been mitigated for now, Hogue and researchers hope that their efforts studying the basic science behind viral infection will apply to a variety of diseases, including the looming specter of......uthored the study. In response to the sonar that bats use to locate prey, the tiger moths make ultrasoni...c those high-frequency sounds. We found that the bats do not eat the good-tasting moths that make the similar sounds, said Barber, who has worked on this ...Fruit bats are not 'blind as a bat'
...he more sensitive rods for night vision. Nocturnal bats were traditionally believed to possess only rods. ...ry in Chicago have discovered that nocturnal fruit bats (flying foxes) possess cones in addition to rods. Hence, fruit bats are also equipped for daylight v...The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
...gallons of nectar per tree in a season, attracting bats that travel as far as 12 miles between trees and transfer pollen in the process. When the seed pods ripen, they break open to reveal fluffy fibers that are used to stuff pillows and mattresses. The seeds, which are about the size of a sunflower seed,......entists have played a key role in discovering that bats are the likely host of a new virus that can cause ...owever only two reoviruses have been isolated from bats in the past, Dr Wang says. In 1968, Nelson Bay reovirus was isolated from a fruit bat (Pteropus po...Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
...there were at least eight, Ms Martinez said. These bats are insectivores and their decline could be due to.... Its important to understand what has happened to bats in the past to more accurately predict what could happen in the future and perhaps prevent any more ...Picky eating potentially perilous for bats
...tary specialization and the risk of extinction for bats in Australia, Europe and North America. Their study, published in the July 25 edition of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, indicates that species of conservation concern often have a more specialized diet than common species, said Boyles....Why nectar-feeding bats need a 'power drink' to fly
Nectar-feeding bats burn sugar faster than any other mammal on Earth ...e they live life on an energetic knife edge, these bats are very vulnerable to any changes in their environment that interrupt their fuel supply for even a ...A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
Oxford August 13, 2007 - Do bats use their ultrasonic echolocation calls to recogni...ests that this is certainly the case for horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae). These bats find their way in the dark and detect insect prey by emitting long ultra...