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Bizarre walking bat has ancient heritage
Jul 29, 2009 |
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A bizarre New Zealand bat that is as much at home walking four-legged on the ground as winging through the air had an Australian ancestor 20 million years ago with the same rare ability, a new study has found.
Clinical Trial Uses Bat Saliva Enzyme for Stroke Treatment
Dec 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires aren't usually cast in the role of saviors, but stroke experts are hoping a blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire saliva will help save brain cells in stroke patients.
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Vampire bats recognise their prey’s breathing
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Jun 16, 2006 |
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Vampire bats, the only mammals to feed exclusively on blood, including human blood, recognize their prey by the sound of its breathing.
Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other, according to a study by researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany. The ...
Study looks at metal baseball bat safety
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Baseball players who use alloy bats are no more likely to be injured than those using wooden bats, a study in Illinois found.
Team offers first look at how bats land (w/Video)
Mar 20, 2009 |
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People have always been fascinated by bats, but the scope of that interest generally is limited to how bats fly and their bizarre habit of sleeping upside down. Until now, no one had studied how bats arrive ...
Study focuses on bats' hibernation periods
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Jul 03, 2007 |
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A U.S. researcher is questioning the conventional theory that bats should maximize their hibernation periods when no insects are available to eat.
Researchers investigate mass bat deaths
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Feb 21, 2008 |
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First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.
Roaring bats
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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Annemarie Surlykke from the Institute of Biology, SDU, Denmark, and her colleague, Elisabeth Kalko, from the University of Ulm, Germany, studied the echolocation behavior in 11 species of insect-eating tropical bats from ...
Vampire mania a perpetual fad in pop culture
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- They're everywhere. Like knee boots, capes and cloaks, vampires are trendy again. In books and movies, on magazine covers, TV and the Internet -- it's hard to avoid blood suckers in the media lately.
Why wind turbines can mean death for bats
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Aug 25, 2008 |
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Power-generating wind turbines have long been recognized as a potentially life-threatening hazard for birds. But at most wind facilities, bats actually die in much greater numbers. Now, researchers reporting in Current Bi ...
Dying bats in the Northeast remain a mystery
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May 08, 2008 |
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Investigations continue into the cause of a mysterious illness that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats since March 2008. At more than 25 caves and mines in the northeastern U.S, bats exhibiting a condition now ...
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