Sentence examples for group of bats from inspiring English sources

The other major group of bats, the Microchiroptera or microbats, is quite ecologically diverse.

An audio track documents the echolocation of a group of bats maneuvering among the sculptures and inadvertently describing the shape of the negative space around them.

In proper scientific fashion, when Dr Holland was collecting the data he was "blinded" as to which group of bats was which - and he initially thought he might be wrong all over again.

Microbats, the group of bats that emit echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that echolocation evolved twice.

Recent studies [ 44] suggest that Noctilionoidea, confined to the Neotropics and the most numerous group of bats in the continent, is autochthonous of South America.

Megachiroptera, consisting of a single family, is a smaller group of bats that mainly live in the Old World tropical places.

In August 1989, for instance, a group of bat-wielding whites killed a 16-year-old black youth, Yusuf K. Hawkins, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, sparking heated protest marches.

As a control, the team raised another group of bat pups with their mothers and fathers, who chattered to each other.

The result of recent work of co-author Dr Chris Scott, who developed software that was able to identify individual species from their echolocation calls, was an important development, Dr Bellamy said, because most myotis bats (largest and most widely distributed group of bat species) had very similar calls, which were very hard to distinguish.

The group utilized an unbiased high-throughput sequencing approach to enhance the knowledge of viral diversity in bats and encountered a highly diverse group of bat-derived viruses which were related to hepaciviruses and pegiviruses.

They were interested in the habit certain groups of bats have of building collective tents in which to shelter, using tree leaves.