Extractions: All words Any word Extras Revised August 2003 For optimal printing, this guide is available in Portable Document Format. For information about PDF files, explore our help page. To best print this Web page, use the landscape setting. To order, request G9460, Bats of Missouri: Information for Homeowners, $.75. Exchanges Use our feedback form to ask questions or make comments. EDUCATION Missouri Department of Conservation Bats are unique and interesting animals. Because of their nocturnal nature and widespread misconceptions about them, they are the subject of myths and folklore that make them one of the most mysterious and misunderstood mammals. The presence of a bat in a house causes more alarm than does any other wildlife species. These fears are unwarranted. Contrary to what you may have heard:
Chiroptera Introduction to the species, characteristics, distribution, and references. From the Tree of Life project. http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/chordata/mammalia/chiroptera/chiropter
Extractions: Tree from Simmons and Geisler (1998). Containing group: Eutheria The clade Chiroptera includes two extant clades, Megachiroptera (Old World Fruit Bats) and Microchiroptera (echolocating bats). In addition, Chiroptera includes at least four extinct clades that are most closely related to Microchiroptera. There are over nine hundred extant species of bats (Koopman, 1993). Bats vary greatly in size. The smallest bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (Microchiroptera), weighs less than 2 g and has a wingspan of 12-13 cm, while the largest bats, those of the genus Pteropus (Megachiroptera), weigh up to 1.5 kg and may have a wing span over 2m (Fenton, 1992). Bats are unique among mammals as they are the only group to have evolved true powered flight. Some other mammals such as "flying" squirrels and "flying" lemurs can glide through the air for long distances, but they are not capable of sustained flight. In contrast, bats can propel themselves with their wings, gaining and loosing altitude and flying for long periods. Bats are nocturnal and usually spend the daylight hours roosting in caves, rock crevices, trees, or manmade structures such as houses and/or bridges. Some bats are solitary, while others are found in colonies that may include over a million individuals.
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B A T S bats A Personal Essay on the Order Chiroptera with Parenthetical Tangents. byMordantia Bat. bats are not always portrayed as evil in world mythologies. http://www.sepulchritude.com/suffer/volumethree/bats.html
Extractions: Pertinent updates are noted within the text of the article when warranted. umans tend to anthropomorphize their relationships with the other species of this planet. Any and all adjectives are attributed to our fellow species what animals do you conjure up when hearing such adjectives as fluffy, cute, edible, spooky, dangerous, gross, loyal, or noble? I would bet, given the audience of this 'zine, many of you adamantly thought, "Snakes. Snakes are fluffy." Yes, a minor challenge to the usual entrenched generalizations, that, and one I believe even speaks of a kind of reverence for the animals themselves. Idiosyncratic adjectives always bring a giddy smile to my face. Nevertheless, I am sure you must know what I am talking about when I speak instead of the typical descriptions people are wont to use. And bats well, poor bats in Western culture, they've often suffered the fate of being dropped usually into those spooky, scary, or dangerous categories. Terrifying or sometimes cutesy sanitized images of them are trotted out at Hallowe'en and in horror movies. Communities frequently worry about them as a health or safety concern, sometimes citing (erroneously, by the way) that most bats are rabid.
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Bats - Article For People Interesting In Facts About Bats bats!! It s getting closer to Halloween, and I decided to do this week s featurearticle on bats. bats are very fascinating creatures and actually very cute. http://birding.about.com/library/weekly/aa101897.htm
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Extractions: Many things people think they know about bats aren't even true. Bats aren't blind, they're not rodents, and they won't get tangled in your hair. The truth is that bats are among the most gentle, beneficial, and necessary animals on earth. But because of centuries of myth and superstition, they are also among the world's least appreciated and most endangered animals. [ Edit Bat Illustrations
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Extractions: The 900 or so species of bats make up 20% or nearly one-quarter of all living mammal species! In the tropics, there are often more bats than all other kinds of mammals combined. There are about 80 bat species in Southeast Asia. Classification: Bats are from the order Chiroptera which means "hand wing" in Greek. There are two main suborders of bats: Megachiroptera or Megabats: Also known as Flying Foxes (only because they look fox-like; they are NOT foxes!). Found only in the Old World, Megabats eat a narrower range of food (fruits, nectar). They don't rely on echolocation as much to navigate (though some echolocate with tongue clicks). Instead, they have excellent eyesight and smell senses. There is only 1 family of Megabats Microchiroptera or Microbats: The rest of 16 families are Microbats. Microbats eat a wide range of food: most are carnivores, mostly insects, but they include fruit eaters, and bizarre specialists like the infamous Vampire Bat. All Microbats use sophisticated echolocation rather than vision to navigate and catch their food. So a Microbat usually has small eyes, and weird fleshy growths on its nose to send out ultrasonic pulses and oversized ears to receive the echoes. Microbats are more widely distributed and have a wider range of forms than any other mammal order.
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B&BC BAP - Bats Species Action Plan Gives the status of bats in the Birmingham and Black Country, the factors affecting the bat population and the action to be taken to conserve the populations. http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/urbanwt/ecorecord/bap/html/bats.htm
Extractions: Associated Species Action Plans Black redstart Kestrel Associated Habitat action plans Woodland Scrub Veteran trees Wetland ... Gardens, allotments, parks and open space 1.1 There are currently 16 species of bats known in Britain. Eight of these have been recorded in Birmingham and the Black Country. Species Status Habitat requirements Brandt's bat ( Myotis brandti Rare Wooded country, often near water Daubenton's bat ( Myotis daubentonii Uncommon Feeds over canals, rivers and ponds Leisler's bat ( Nyctalus leislerii Rare Woodland, parkland, suburban areas Natterer's bat ( Myotis nattererii Rare Open woodland, parkland, hedgerows, watersides Noctule( Nyctalus noctula Uncommon Woodland, parkland, pasture, water Pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus Widespread Water, farmland, woodland edge, gardens, urban areas Whiskered bat ( Myotis mystacinus Uncommon Wooded country, often near water Brown long-eared ( Plecotus auritus Uncommon Woodland, parkland, orchards The status of bats in the Birmingham and Black Country regions is tentative, being based on relatively few records, and may change in the future. 1.2 Over the last 15 years the Birmingham and Black Country Bat Group has steadily increased knowledge of the region's bats and raised awareness of this group of mammals with the support of English Nature, the Bat Conservation Trust and the Wildlife Trust.
Order Chiroptera ORDER CHIROPTERA bats. Chiroptera, hand wing, alludes to the great elongationof the fingers that support the flying membrane. KEY TO THE bats OF TEXAS. http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/ordchiro.htm
Extractions: The Mammals of Texas - Online Edition ORDER CHIROPTERA: BATS Chiroptera, "hand wing," alludes to the great elongation of the fingers that support the flying membrane. Among mammals, bats are unique in that they have true powers of flight; other mammals, such as flying squirrels, volplane or glide, always from a higher to a lower elevation. Bats as a group are crepuscular or nocturnal; their eyes are small and inefficient, but their ears are usually well developed. Experiments suggest that the middle and inner ear and high-frequency vocals are highly important in guiding bats in flight and in their aerial feeding activities. Some bats hibernate in winter; others migrate seasonally. Bats are nearly worldwide in distribution. The tropical regions are best suited for them, and there the greatest variety is found. The temperate regions are inhabited by fewer species; no bats have been recorded in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Thirty-two species of bats occur in Texas. In addition to the 32 species of bats living in Texas today, four others are known from fossil skeletal remains. One of these
