bats

One of the white men hit Mr. Johnson across the face. They all started punching him and hitting him with the bats.

Student: Well, bats. Since they are all blind, bats have to use sound for, you know, to keep them from blind(flying) into things.

With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to "see" objects inthe dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do.

The neighbors who had not opened their doors to us came out with baseball bats and helped Jeremy find his glasses and keys.

If there is only a gaping wound left then it must gush forth though it produce nothing but toads and bats and homunculi.

The vexing question is: Why? Bats are the only mammal with a better ability to hear changes in pitch than humans do.

Another example would be a window shattering, wind gushing in and a swarm of bats flying towards you.

more than 20 years. The guano of bats has long been used for agricultural fertilizer.

Akre and her team observed that the female frogs and the bats did not always go toward the speaker producing the most "chucks. "

Biologists found a pregnant female roosting in a pine tree, and say they might be able to improve the bats' living situation.

Bats fly in the air everywhere, a few aristocrats wearing black ponchos, riding a dragon, since most luxurious fly out of the building.

A child comes from American put his table tennis bats in the back of the classroom, and his classmates all appreciated him for that.

There were pillared halls, long corridors carved most beautifully, and there was the smell of bats and of incense.

Bats may actually be a coward, until the beginning of the war, constipation faceless, hiding in the side match.

This was the first time satellite telemetry has been used to track bats in Asia.

The extreme nature of bats also makes them valuable in helping to understand human health.

Finally, when RJ bats a blue balloon toward his head, Derek's mouth curls into a smile.

Forget cricket bats, golf clubs or carbon dioxide, Australia has found a new weapon in its war on the cane toad: cat food.

"OK, follow me. " he said and flew out of the cave with hundreds of bats behind him.

Radar compared with radar principle This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar, the principle of which is similar.

This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar.

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Because bats do not have eyes, you can fly in the dark can also be a symbol of intuition.

Most bats produce a complicated sequence of calls, combining constant frequencies and frequency modulation components.

I bet Steve Jobs and a few Apple guys with baseball bats stroll in and begin to trash the place.

The mouse and fish up to retinoic acid contained in the body, which is why snakes, cats, bats, rats born to be their natural enemy.

BATS, one of the largest alternative exchanges, announced last month that it was acquiring rival Chi-X to create an even larger platform.

They hunt bats with a net or long poles, and then roast the beasts over charcoal fires or mince them up into a traditional Thai dish.

Then he turned around and walked down to home plate and picked up our two bats; we always left the bats for him to carry.

Some bats have even been utilised in pest control experiments, keeping boll moth numbers down in cotton plantations.

In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Like the bats, the computer-modeled 3-D penguins were cloned en masse and then set loose into the scene aimed in a certain direction.

This echolocation in bats is often compared with radar, the principle of which is similar.

The recordings revealed the complexity of the sounds that some bats emit, with each click lasting only a quarter of a millisecond.

This was a surprise, as bats' sonar should allow them to detect moving objects even better than they do stationary ones.

Bats can be fussy in their habits and a little disturbance may have drastic consequences.

Bats also possess hairs on the surface of their wings which let them sense the air flowing over their wings.

But for vampire bats it works as a homing device, turning the night-flying mammal into a heat-seeking missile with fangs.

An old superstition says that bats often try to get caught in the long hair of women.

Bats are the hidden guardians of Britain's ecosystems and scientists fear they might be in peril.

At a specific time, all the bats would explode in a thousand fiery blazes, igniting fires across the city.

There was a cave full wf lots wf vampire bats. wince, a bat called Andy came home late and there was wf bleed all over his body.

They could fold their joints close to the body at the shoulder and walked a little like bats.

bats are the only flying mammal in the world, They can't see very well, "as blind as a bat" is often heard.

Scientists have found a new influenza virus that infects bats.

Bats are closely associated with vampires, who are said to be able to shapeshift into bats, fog, or wolves.

At least 3500 of the giant bats succumbed to the heat in one day.

Murinabeelzebub, like the other two tube-nosed bats discovered, depends on the tropical forest for its survival.

It is all about getting an edge, which is why guys use things like steroids, amphetamines, or corked bats.

Every year four-and-a-half times the quantity spilled by the Exxon Valdez is poured into the ocean and nobody bats an eyelid.

A Cuban plant that depends on bat pollination evolved a special leaf that acts like a satellite dish for bats' sonar, new research says.

Another strange thing about bats is the fact that they can fly in total darkness and yet never bump into anything.

Bats are the only mammals to have wings and to achieve sustained flight.

But later research revealed that the virus actually started out in bats and then spread to palm civets and humans.

Gianluca Vialli, ex-manager of Chelsea football club, also bats (or should that be shoots) for the long sleeve.

If bats fly within a meter or so of a spinning turbine, they get caught in the depressurized zone and experience barotrauma .

Soaring through the air these creatures are often mistaken for flying hamsters or bats with tails.

When artificially infected with the virus, all animals and plants so far tried either die or kill the virus---except bats.

Bats have been reported in exhaust pipes of vehicles, jackets hung up for the night or the inside of folded canvas chairs.

They were interested in the habit certain groups of bats have of building collective tents in which to shelter, using tree leaves.

"The high frequencies make the bats' sonar beam very focused and short-ranged, " he said.

Baseball bats were the roost, and a coat rack was the trunk.

Bats are the biggest family of mammals and the only one that can fly, but are threatened by habitat loss and persecution by humans.

Its never occurred to me that bats are really guided by their ears.

VTB was the sole bidder in the tender after British American Tobacco Plc (BATS), Europe's largest cigarette maker, pulled out.

The Chief crossed the street with his coat collar up, the bats under his left arm, and his concentration on the street.

The name of the disease comes from a white fungus found on the faces and wings of infected bats.

Ultimately, whereas evolution can be whimsical (think: vampire bats), its general tendencies are predictable.

So negotiations take place: If I can have this flower for the birds , you can keep the bats.

7-12. This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar, the principle of which is similar.

A primary reason is that bats are also often listening, waiting, and getting ready to eat. . . frogs.

Microscopic structures from other fossil species, ranging from bats to ichthyosaurs, have been interpreted by some as melanosomes.

Without bats, farmers may have to use more insecticide, raising environmental worries and pushing up grocery prices.

Despite what you see in the movies, vampire bats almost never drink human blood.

Wind turbines kill bats the world over, yet the exact cause has remained as mysterious as the plot of a movie thriller.

When he talked about going to the moon he was thought to have bats in his belfry.

We expect to see bats in the evening, not in the broad daylight.

Startled, the bats would head for the nearest cracks in buildings and chew off the bombs, which would explode.

The bats were to be dropped from a plane over Japan in containers that would open at 1, 000 feet.

Legends of Dracula and tales of vampire bats have done little to enhance these creatures' reputations.

During the shooting season , the team gains experience by shooting birds , pigeons and fruit bats. We then use everything that we shoot .

The strong, elastic wood of this tree, used for furniture, tool handles, and sporting goods such as baseball bats.

Although these bats sleep during the day, they do so curled up with their heads exposed to the sun.

Nature lovers can revel in the undetectable webcasting of bats, sharks, and penguins at various sites around the world.

A related convergence, the study team suggests, may have led to the heat-sensing capabilities of vampire bats.

By emitting high-pitched sounds and listening to the echoes, also known as sonar, bats locate prey and other nearby objects.

The busbar automatic transfer switch (BATS) in regional power network is an important means to ensure power supply reliability.

Although it is hard to imagine, bats have an auditory version of a saccade as well.

This pair of sponge table tennis bats are very good. They are selling like hot cakes now.

What's the brain thinking as it watches you jump around, swinging imaginary bats or head-butting imaginary soccer balls?

Batman catches bad guys in his "wings" , but he does not use teeth to defeat prey like some real bats do.

Sometimes it's just fun to sketch what's on your mind, whether it be nighttime visions of bats, or the creepy monsters of the popular media.

Dr Teeling has been looking at the genome, or genetic code, of bats and comparing it to other organisms, including humans.

The only signs of life at the visitor centre are bats in the ventilation shafts.

The webs are strong enough to stop small birds, bats, or the rare unlucky lizard.

It is said to be bad luck if you see bats flying and hear their cries.

Bats: To call someone "batty1" or say a person has "bats in the belfry" is to call the person crazy.

Researchers discover that whales and bats each evolved with the sophisticated ability to use sonar in identifying objects from a distance.

Through the "Forest bats activities" to analyze this data to carry out variable selection.

Sometimes flashing, it allows bats to attack so that the owls have been frozen, and then bat attack can be frozen and owls kill them.

These bats feed on flying insects and, just as many other bats, use echolocation to find them.

But bats are threatened by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that kills them, as well as by deadly collisions with wind turbines.

Active during the night, they are often mistaken for bats and chased away from human settlements.

Batman Returns in 1992 was the first movie to use his approach, portraying a swarm of bats and an army of penguins.

Animals that also include deer, bats and foxes will be shifted to other zoos and aquariums around the country.

He did a lot of research into the embryological origins of a rare blood disorder in vampire bats.

Bats and dolphins use their exceptional hearing to find prey and each other, enough to accurately nab a small fly or fish.

Bats were long considered the primary pollinators of Ochroma, but recent research suggests arboreal mammals do most of the work.

Such plans suggest that though China is getting all the brick bats, downstream countries should face much closer scrutiny too.

One of North America's most common bats may be driven to extinction in the northeastern US in as little as 16 years.

any of numerous bats of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe -shaped leaf on the nose.

BARBARA KLEIN: When the bats are healthy, she moves them to a closed off area next to her home so they can learn once more how to fly.

Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out of Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve in Texas at dusk.

here ' s stuttgart ' s coach armin veh , presumably watching a flock of bats flying over the stadium in frankfurt.

He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also he had eaten, leaving only their claws.

Dr. Moron and his team of researchers study the sleeping pattern of bats. They believed that bats have dreams just like people.

Bats are the only mammals' native to Socotra.

"The bats have a large range and can bring pollen to specimens which are far apart, " he said.

During intercourse, female short-nosed fruit bats lick the genitals of their partner, a possible ploy to increase copulation time.

To resolve these problems, this paper on two issues: the program for Remote BATS research and static security analysis software development.

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"Given my background in Hendra and Nipah, I had a hunch that bats were perhaps the natural reservoir, " says Wang.

Transmission of the Marburg virus also occurred by handling ill or dead infected wild animals (monkeys, fruit bats).

Tiny, quick winged bats streak through the bright sky, flying razors waiting for the perfect moment to descend.

To date, only seven human cases of Hendra have been recorded - all in Queensland and all traced to horses infected by bats.

Bats are the source of most human rabies deaths in the United States of America and Canada.

In the lab, scientists noticed that Pallas's long-tongued bats excelled at finding hollow hemisphere shapes hidden among artificial leaves.

But there was good news with regard to otters, bats and water voles, whose populations have increased.

Finally he slowed down and all the other bats excitedly milled around him.

The pitcher pitches and the batter bats. Behind the pitcher, the fielders wait. If the batter swings and misses, they keep on waiting.

These caves are crucial to the species' survival and disturbances in the area can have dire consequences for the bats.

Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, birds can migrate using celestial cues, and bats can locate food with echoes.

An hour later, men carrying baseball bats, pipes and chains attacked the 2nd bus. The Freedom Riders on this bus were severely beaten.

Once WNS hits a cave, its entire bat population - sometimes tens of thousands of bats - can die.

Remarkably, in 1996 fruit bats (flying foxes) were found to be the natural host of the virus.

Scientists had long assumed that the balsa tree's target audience must be bats.

In bats, the sounds are made and sent out by their noses. The sounds bounce off things in their surroundings like insects or branches.

The bats are especially vulnerable due to ongoing deforestation in the region, researchers warn.

Bats are nocturnal flying mammals. The statistics presented here describe small, insectivorous bats.

The team drew on records from satellites that used radar altimeters, which work similarly to bats' echolocation, or natural radar.

In addition, bats had Ebola-like sequences, which the scientists speculate could help them transmit the disease without succumbing to it.

This bats to and fro and eventually gets signed by both and then is filed away in a drawer and usually forgotten about.

An annual Redneck Fishing Tournament now brings men to the Illinois River with baseball bats in hand, keen to get their revenge.

The state opposition leader had called for a cull of bats, the virus natural host.

Past outbreaks have been linked to caves or mines frequented by bats; Kitaka has several million of the creatures.

It is a well known fact that bats, though almost blind, never fail to catch small insets in the air.

During World War II, the U. S. military considered sending bats to Japan.

Many animals like bats, squirrels, skunks , chipmunks, and bears sleep during the winter.

Their predators include lizards, geckos, jumping spiders, toads, birds, rodents, bats, and shrews.

Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the natural hosts of Hendra virus.

The mammalian skeleton is consistently recognisable in creatures as various as bats, monkeys, horses and humans.

The only exceptions are nocturnal creatures such as bats, owls, opossum or rats to name a few.

Few inspect the counters and jars filled with exotic salves and cures, from dried bats and lizards to caterpillar fungus.

Bats come in all shapes and sizes and are a very interesting and unique creature.

"Bill Gates Bats for China, " read a triumphal headline in the Global Times, a sometimes nationalistic Chinese newspaper.

"How local weather affects the bats depends on the seasonal climate, " she explains.

He bats away questions about how he is doing personally: "I think how I feel is not important, " he told reporters days ago.

The visiting team Bats first at the top of each inning .

But scientists are concerned that the condition could jump to gray bats and Indiana bats, which are endangered.

It was long believed, and still is in many places, that all bats are blind.

That biologist says: certain bats by receiving the echoes to the squeaks they emit, can locate and steer clear of obstacles.

Horse feed and water troughs should be relocated to areas away from where bats feed or roost.

Vampire bats can literally smell blood with heat sensitive nose-pits, which help them locate|the most profitable blood vessels to tap into.

bats, or rather natural selection had perfected the system.

The researchers trapped individual bats and fastened collars round their necks before releasing them.

Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the natural host of Nipah virus.

Similarly, no special equipment is required-no costly bats, rackets or balls-and no expensive sports kit.

Giant bats are bats about the size of a cat or a small dog. They make prey of small rodents or toads.

I(have)two bats and a pair of sports shoes in my locker.

For the new study, scientists set up an obstacle course near an abandoned mine in Ontario, Canada, where little brown bats often gather.

"Bomb the bats" screamed the headline of a newspaper quoting him.

South Bay the other side of the island there are many sea turtles, lizards, bats, Python, tourists can have their pictures taken.

One by one, the small brown bats take flight into darkness, hunting for insects and small bugs.

In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.

By late evening, vandals with bats and pipes moved into more affluent neighborhoods including Camden and Chalk Farm.

Perhaps the primates catch the disease from fruit licked by fruit bats during the previous night.

Thereupon led the numerous bats to fly flies, flies in front of a big tree: The small bat asked that, Has seen that greatly to set up?

Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began hassling him about where he got it.

Bats are the only mammals that fly.

A substance composed chiefly of the dungof sea birds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer.

Many bats emit an echolocation call that contains a narrow frequency range and then analyze returning echoes to navigate and to detect prey.

Explore the mines filled with danger and always dig deeper to avoid landslides, bats and ghosts.

All the bats quickly learned to avoid the noxious moths first offered to them, associating the warning sounds with bad taste.

Although it's possible, he says, that bats are just being sexually playful, like their human and bonobo counterparts.

The loss of these bats could result in increased insect populations that damage crops and spread disease.

Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began asking him about where he got it.

The natural host of the virus has been identified as being fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus.

Some bats seem to have a knack for finding unusual places to sleep.

People's perceptions of bats are not affected by how the media portray them.

At midnight the witches came flying through the air like bats.

Island bats hanging on the tree, looks like the same as dead.

The pterosaurs resembled both birds and bats in their overall structure and proportions.

Rather than flags and banners Mr Bakiyev's enraged opponents carried staves, clubs and baseball bats.

Bats are the only flying mammals in the world.

He has dead bats, used in certain love charms, and ground-up rattlesnake, for curing illnesses.

When I saw Isa, my first impression was her thinness. Her legs looked like baseball bats and her arms like broomsticks.

diurnal rhythms; diurnal rotation of the heavens; the diurnal slumber of bats.

Every time he bats an eyelid , every time his heart takes a pumping stroke , cells must provide energy .

In Jakarta, fruit bats are sold to passersby, not as exotic pets, but as a cure for asthma.

Because of these qualities, bats have long been linked in many cultures to death, darkness and vampires.

Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when at rest, and travel in great crowds when out flying.

Other possible carriers include cats, bats, raccoons, foxes, skunks and coyotes.

The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus.

Insect-eating bats dine on a delectable range of food from beetles and moths to ants, and bugs.

The animal reservoir remains unknown for certain, but all indications point at the bats.

Discovered in 1984, this species is noted for its strangely tubular nostrils and the stripes on its back (very few bats have stripes).

In the middle ages it was believed that witches were closely associated with bats.

I could also make out the shape of fruit-bats, hunting for lychees in the trees.

In the film Batman Returns a horde of large black bats swarmed through flooded tunnels into downtown Gotham .

Numerous drugs and medications target BATs, acting as inhibitors or substrates.

Midges, bats, spiders, mites, amblypygids, and small, hemoglobin-rich fish thrive in the sulfur-saturated environment.

Betty bats the ball. It hits Ben's big toe.

In recent years, caves full of bats have been dying from white nose syndrome.

Vampire bats share blood with one another, and dolphins swap favors, and so do monkeys.

Bats also produce audible squeaks to communicate amongst themselves.

Getco is an investor in Chi-X and BATS, while Tradebot is a BATS shareholder.

The scarier one is the vampire bat which sucks fresh blood from animals, these bats are generally larger.

Bats face an even greater challenge than people when it comes to picking a single voice from a crowd, Kanwal says.

Female bats, for instance, maintain viable sperm inside themselves for months.

If we split mammals into bats and nonflying mammals, bats behave kind of like the birds.

To round up the unemployed and the wastrels and give them all bats .

Bats' wings are thinner and respond more quickly than birds' wings, making them capable fliers.

The virus is found mostly in raccoons, bats, skunks, coyotes and foxes, and occasionally seen in pets.

Bats represent nearly a third of the known mammal species in South East Asia already.

As the bats approached the mealworms, they produced repeated calls every 17 milliseconds.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day , so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all .

The disease disorients bats, disturbing their sleep and causing them to fly when they normally don't, during hibernation.

Another neotropical plant, M. holtonii, signals bats via a specialized acoustical "mirror" inside its flowers.

But the research also turned up a tantalizing clue: Midway through the study, when the bats' hormones shifted, so did their the crash stats.

Finally, the bats only during the hours of darkness, flying secretly.

It has been found that certain bats emit squeaks and by receiving the echoes.

How do birds and bats and other flying beasties manage to get off and stay off the ground?

Of course, these weren't just any bats, these were incendiary-bomb-fitted bats. Kamikaze bats.

Furthermore, the calls of bats are supersonic pulse, so it is very necessary to use special digital signal processing equipments.

No matter how high the levee or how flexible the foundation, disaster experts say, nature bats last.

And the argument would be exactly the same as for the bats.

Early eradication methods included hitting the toads with golf clubs or cricket bats.

There is evidence that bats are involved, but much work remains to be done to definitively describe the the natural transmission cycle. .

"People are probably quite often seeing bats without realizing it, " adds Gration.

Another explanation for the cocktail party effect comes from bats.

A new study reveals bats zero in on a target using techniques employed by guided missiles.

Bats, kangaroos, moles and sloths can swim, despite their rather strange shapes.

In Canada the animals that most often transmit rabies are foxes, skunks, bats, and raccoons.

In Canada, the animals that most often transmit rabies are bats, foxes, skunks and raccoons.

BATS's systems cost a mere $7m to set up and run in its first year.

These incredibly high-pitched and fast-paced calls enable the bats to track bugs and other prey in the dense rainforest understory.

This is an old windmill. Who lives in the windmill? The birds. The owl. The bats.

These 32 bats and four songbirds represent an average yearly toll for each of the 23 turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm.

Employee said bats got in her hair.

They also found no evidence that the patient was navigating by echolocation, the way that bats do.