| Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate. |
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| Bats and nocturnal moths take to the wing, while butterflies settle and flowers begin to close their petals. |
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| Bats typically accumulate body fat in autumn, which serves as the main energy source until emergence from hibernation in spring. |
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| The best thing is that everyone who goes to Bats Day can just leave all their cares and worries at the gate, and just have a fun time. |
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| Bats are generally faithful to their roosts and a colony may use the same site year after year. |
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| Bats can be observed emerging from their lair every evening at sunset between mid-March and November. |
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| Bats rustled their wings above him, restless as the evening turned to night and the time to fly in search of food approached. |
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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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| Bats feature prominently among organisms that occupy the aerosphere as they extensively use this environment for foraging. |
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| Bats that had once lived deep in the forest were now eking out a living on mango trees and near pig farms. |
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| Bats are crucial to the ecosystem, performing extremely valuable jobs like pollination and insect control. |
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| Bats present a significant hazard in areas where the rabies virus is endemic. |
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| Cancer Bats continued the sonic carnage in CF10 with their scathing, bastardised boogie. |
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| Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. |
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| The band performed in North America again in the summer of 2008 as part of the No Fear Tour with Bleeding Through, Cancer Bats and Black Tide. |
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| The release was followed by a tour in Britain, Ireland and northern Europe, supported by Canadian hardcore punk act Cancer Bats. |
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| Bats are present throughout most of the world, with the exception of extremely cold regions. |
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| Bats are economically important, as they consume insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides. |
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| Bats are sometimes numerous enough to serve as tourist attractions, and are used as food across Asia and the Pacific Rim. |
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| Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, as opposed to gliding mammals such as the flying squirrel. |
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| Bats seem to make use of particularly strong venomotion, a rhythmic contraction of venous wall muscles. |
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| Bats may not be able to dissipate heat if the ambient temperature is too high. |
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| Bats also possess a system of sphincter valves on the arterial side of the vascular network that runs along the edge of their wings. |
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| Bats are among the most vocal of mammals and produce calls to attract mates, find roost partners and defend resources. |
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| Bats use supersounds as a substitute for eyes. When a maze of silk threads was strung across a room, bats negotiated the maze at high speed without touching a thread. |
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| Bats have typical mammalian lungs, which are thought to be more sensitive to sudden air pressure changes than the lungs of birds, making them more liable to fatal rupture. |
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| Bats are eaten in countries across Asia and the Pacific Rim. |
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| Bats prefer ripe fruit, pulling it off the trees with their teeth. |
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| Additional records of ectoparasitic insects on Bats in Oklahoma. |
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| Bats are not restricted to any one hunting strategy, but rather use a mix. |
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| Bats can estimate the elevation of their target using the interference patterns from the echoes reflecting from the tragus, a flap of skin in the external ear. |
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| Bats are adapted to roosting, hanging upside down from their feet. |
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| Bats have five elongated digits, which all radiate around the wrist. |
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