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Eptesicus is a genus of bats, commonly called house bats or serotine bats, in the family Vespertilionidae. [1] The genus name is likely derived from the Greek words ptetikos 'able to fly' or petomai 'house flier', although this is not certain.
Benny, a bat who appeared in Bear in the Big Blue House, recycled by Leah the Fruit Bat from Jim Henson's The Animal Show [24] Rosita, la Monstrua de las Cuevas, a fruit bat on Sesame Street [25] [26] Elmo Bat, a bat variation of Elmo imagined by Dorothy in the Elmo's World episode Sleep; Stupid Bat, Witchiepoo's dim-witted assistant, from H.R ...
Bats get most of their water from the food they eat; many species also drink from water sources like lakes and streams, flying over the surface and dipping their tongues into the water. [ 149 ] The Chiroptera as a whole are in the process of losing the ability to synthesise vitamin C . [ 150 ]
Nycteribiidae - Bat flies; Streblidae - Bat flies (Note that the Mystacinobiidae, while also a bat fly, belongs to the superfamily Oestroidea). The Hippoboscidae are commonly called louse flies or ked flies. The bat flies are Nycteribiidae and Streblidae (along with Mystacinobiidae); the Streblidae are probably not monophyletic. [2]
Big brown bats infrequently test positive for the rabies virus; of the 8,273 individuals submitted for testing across the United States in 2011, 314 (3.8%) tested positive for the virus. [5] There is a known bias in testing, however, as healthy bats rarely come into contact with humans, and therefore sick bats are more likely to be tested. [61]
Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as fruit bats or flying foxes, among other colloquial names. They live in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, East Africa, and some oceanic islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [3]
Nycteribiidae is a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea.Together with their close relatives the Streblidae, they are known as "bat flies".As the latter do not seem to be a monophyletic group, it is conceivable that bat flies cannot be united into a single family.
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat families, specialised in many forms to occupy a range of habitats and ecological circumstances, and it is ...