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- Bats (Kids' Planet)
Includes a description and a drawing.
- Bats (Zoological Society of San Diego)
Provides a description and includes pictures. 12-04
- Bats Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
- Study: Wind Farms May Put Bats at Risk (BBC News)
"Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals."
"Some research groups are investigating ways to keep bats away from wind farms, and a University of Aberdeen group recently suggested radar emissions might act as a 'bat-scarer'. 08-08
- Bats (A-Z Animals)
"Bats are found all around the world and there are hundreds of different species of bat, living in caves and forests, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. The bumblebee bat found in the jungle of Thailand, is the smallest mammal in the world and weighs less than a penny!" 01-09
- Bat Facts (CloudForestAlive.com)
Provides interesting and unusual information about the bat. 2-01
- Rodents (Wikipedia.org)
"The order Rodentia is the most numerous of all the branches on the mammal family tree. Currently there are, depending on the authority consulted, between 2000 and 3000 species of rodent—roughly half of all mammal species. Rodents are found in vast numbers on all continents (they are the only placental order other than the bats to reach Australia without human introduction), most islands, and in all habitats bar the oceans."
"Most rodents are small. The tiny African Pygmy Mouse is only 6 cm in length and 7 grams in weight. On the other hand, the Capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds) and the extinct Phoberomys pattersoni is believed to have weighed 700 kg."
"Rodents have two incisors in the upper as well as in the lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept worn down by gnawing; this is the origin of the name, from the Latin rodere, to gnaw." 12-04
- -04-03-11 We Are Losing an Insect Pest Killer -- The Bat (Time.com)
"Named for a white fungus that appears on the muzzle and other body parts of hibernating bats, WNS has killed at least one million bats, mostly in the northeast, and death rates among some affected winter colonies can be as high as 70%. One species—the little brown bat or Myotis lucifugus—has declined so quickly that it is headed for extinction."
"You might say: so what? Other than chiroptologists—yes, people who study bats—would anyone miss them when they're gone? As it turns out, all of us would—at least if you like food. A new article in Science shows that bats have an important role to play in agriculture—one worth at least $3.7 billion a year, if not far more. That's how much the extinction of bats throughout North America could cost the region's food system, according to an analysis (access PDF here) by a group of researchers led by Justin Boyles of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The logic is simple: bats eat bugs—tons and tons of bugs—and that includes crop and forests pests. (A single colony of 150 brown bats in Indianan has been estimated to eat nearly 1.3 million pest insects a year.) Remove the bats, and you remove one of nature's most effective biological pesticides—which would have to be replaced by actual pesticides, at an economic and environmental expense." 04-11
- James Zwerg: Freedom Rider (CNN News)
"Looking out the window, Zwerg could see men gripping baseball bats, chains and clubs. They had sealed off the streets leading to the bus station and chased away news photographers. They didn't want anyone to witness what they were about to do."
"Zwerg accepted his worst fear: He was going to die today." 05-11
- 09-30-05 SARS Hiding Place Found (Bloomberg.com)
"Bats that harbor viruses similar to the one that causes SARS may be the ultimate source of the lung disease that killed almost 800 people from late 2002 through 2003, according to a study in Sciencexpress, the online version of Science magazine." 9-05
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