enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat

    Bat roosts can be found in hollows, crevices, foliage, and even human-made structures, and include "tents" the bats construct with leaves. [135] Megabats generally roost in trees. [ 136 ] Most microbats are nocturnal [ 137 ] and megabats are typically diurnal or crepuscular .

  3. Indiana bat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_bat

    In addition to day roosts, Indiana bats use temporary roosts throughout the night to rest between foraging bouts. Limited research has examined the use of night roosts by Indiana bats, thus their use and importance are poorly understood. Males, lactating and postlactating females, and juveniles have been found roosting under bridges at night.

  4. Heliconia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconia

    The bat cuts the side veins of the leaf extending from the midrib, causing the leaf to fold like a tent. This structure provides the bat with shelter from rain, sun, and predators. In addition, the stems of the Heliconia leaves are not strong enough to carry the weight of typical bat predators, so shaking of the leaf alerts roosting bats to ...

  5. Indian flying fox - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_flying_fox

    Within the roost the bats quarrel and chatter often, and during sunny hours of the day bats fan their wings and call, and during cloudy periods bats are silent and wrap their wings around their body. Occasionally a few bats fly around the roost during the day, but most activity is restricted to night, when they leave the roost one by one 20 ...

  6. Tent-making bat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent-making_bat

    The tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum) is an American leaf-nosed bat (Phyllostomidae) found in lowland forests of Central and South America. [2] This medium-sized bat has a gray coat with a pale white stripe running down the middle of the back. Its face is characterized by a fleshy nose-leaf and four white stripes. Primarily a frugivore, it ...

  7. Cimicidae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimicidae

    The subfamilies Primicimicinae and Latrocimicinae use New World bats as their hosts, while Afrocimicinae and Cacodminae use Old World bats. Bats represent a convenient mammal to exploit as they roost communally, returning to the same roost regularly. It is perhaps to avoid the parasites that some species of bat regularly change roosts.

  8. Seba's short-tailed bat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seba's_Short-tailed_Bat

    Groups of C. perspicillata will roost in numbers from 10 to 100, in caves, hollow trees, and in tunnels. [3] They will usually roost during the day, and will forage at night. [3] There are two different types of roosts found in these bats, harems and bachelor roosts. [3] In a harem roost, there is a single male, some females and their offspring ...

  9. List of bat roosts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bat_roosts

    Banwell Caves, Somerset, England [1]; Beer Quarry Caves, England; Belle Vue Quarry, England; Blaisdon Hall, England; Box Mine, England; Brockley Hall Stables, England ...