Article: Hanging by a Thread.(Rodrigues fruit bat)(Brief Article)

Article: Rare fruit bats found to practice `midwifery'
The Boston Globe;  June 6, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... birth,' " said Kunz, as he jumped up to emulate the bat's behavior. "She was tutoring." The bats were Rodrigues fruit bats, small, fuzzy creatures that look like primates -- or teddy bears -- with wings. The bats are found in the ...

Article: MUSICIAN'S UNLIKELY CAREER TAKES FLIGHT WITH FRUIT ...
The Boston Globe;  May 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... playing music, these days as half of the Fruit Bats, the folk-pop duo based in Chicago ... Rowboat band mate Brian Bender formed the Fruit Bats as a whimsical side project in 1999. "The Fruit Bats was originally intended to be this sprawling ...

Article: Activity patterns in a captive colony of Jamaican fruit ...
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science;  August 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... patterns of a captive colony of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) using an Anabat ... echolocation ********** Jamaican fruit bats (Phyllostomidae: Artibeus jamaicensis ... specialty in figs (Ficus spp.), Jamaican fruit bats also feed on mangos (Mangifera spp ...

Article: Fruit bats are not 'blind as bats' in daylight
The Hindustan Times;  June 16, 2007 ;     689 words ... ... Hindustan Times Munich, June 16 -- Fruit bats have cells in their retinas that enable ... for night vision. Previously nocturnal fruit bats (flying foxes) were believed to possess ... where they assemble in large colonies. Fruit bats do not echolocate like microbats. They ...

Article: ZOO UPDATE: EGYPTIAN FRUIT BATS.(Weekend)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  October 25, 2002 ;     478 words ...A colony of more than 80 Egyptian fruit bats lives in the Adaptation area of the Rosamond ... common among these mammals. Egyptian fruit bats navigate in the dark mostly by sight ... allowing them to fly unimpeded. Egyptian fruit bats are medium-sized compared to all other ...

Article: Fruit bats detected as carrier of Nipah virus in ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 27, 2004 ;     519 words ...Fruit bats detected as carrier of Nipah virus in Bangladesh DHAKA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Fruit bats have been detected as the carrier of ... presence of the virus in the bodies of fruit bats. The experts pointed out the virus spread ...

Article: Fruit bats born at zoo; number now at 13
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  May 13, 2009 ;     494 words ... ... Tropical Rain Forest of three Giant Indian fruit bats, also known as "flying foxes." Zoo ... 13 the zoo's number of Giant Indian fruit bats, with that species having been represented ... several hundred to several thousand. The fruit bats in the zoo's Tropical Rain Forest feed ...