How To Use Fruit bat In A Sentence
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It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
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The main species threatened by hunting are the tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), fruit bats (Pteropus rufus and Eidolon helvum), and the red-fronted brown lemur.
Madagascar succulent woodlands
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Fruit bats are another example of a mammalian frugivore.
Frugivore
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Fruit bats are thought to carry the disease.
The Sun
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Probably, like the fruit bat Rousettus, they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo.
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Some species have wing spans up to five feet, eat fruit, and with one exception among their 173 species, do not echolocate (the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus egyptiacus, is the only megabat that echolocates).
Wash Park Prophet
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Probably, like the fruit bat Rousettus, they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo.
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Custom-made by Telemetry Solutions of Concord, California, it's small enough to attach to a fruit bat for research purposes.
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Among bats, larger species among the Pteropodidae (Old World fruit bats with mass in the range 0.21.5 kg) often glide or soar, and use undulating flight facultatively.
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The author experiments on banana jelly medium to cultivate fruit bat and achieves success.
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Some species of fruit bat also sip nectar when it is available.
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This side project was dubbed Fruit Bats, named after a type of large, flying, fruit-eating tropical mammal.
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Custom-made by Telemetry Solutions of Concord, California, it's small enough to attach to a fruit bat for research purposes.
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Probably, like the fruit bat Rousettus, they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo.
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In the case of the fruit bats, the bats are crucial for dispersing the seeds contained within the fruits.
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Probably, like the fruit bat Rousettus, they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo.
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During one afternoon survey in the Mwofwomero Forest, in the Rubeho Mountains, he heard a fruit bat shrieking.
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However, in a phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Jamaican fruit bat it appeared more closely related to cetferungulates, a clade including Cetacea, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Carnivora.
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Instead, his focus is on the hundreds of fruit bats silhouetted against the dusky sky.
In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry
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A tube-nosed fruit bat with an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda has been discovered by scientists in Papua New Guinea in a remote rainforest.
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There were at least two native mammals in the ecoregion, the Critically Endangered Bonin fruit bat (Pteropus pselaphon), and now Extinct vespertilionid bat Pipistrellus sturdeei.
Ogasawara subtropical moist forests
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The Fruit bat in Philippines looks like fox.
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That was followed by a couple dozen entries that fell for the testes gambit, and only one curiosity seeker who chose "lactation" - guess everyone knew about the fruit bats.
Jezebel
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Fruit bats in the Cayman Islands are considered to be crop pests and information is available from the National Trust to help farmers to protect their sweetsops and other soft-skinned fruits.
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[Dr. Mundita] Lim said a team from the Comparative Biogeography and Conservation of Philippine Vertebrates (CBCPV) project conducted an expedition in Mindoro Occidental early last year that led to the discovery of the new fruit bat species, which has been named as the 'Mindoro Stripe-Faced Fruitbat' for its striking facial features and the island on which it was found.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Bushbabies in the branches, fruit bats munching in the mango trees, a night-time lullaby of sea on sand — magic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fruit bats are thought to carry the disease.
The Sun
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Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well.
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Lowland Greater Mindanao is home to endangered mammals also found in other parts of the Philippines, including the golden-capped fruit bat (Acerodon jubatus) and the mottle-winged flying-fox (Pteropus leucopterus) (found on Luzon and Dinagat).
Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests
