Sentence examples for groups of bats from inspiring English sources

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

In 2008, the researchers discovered that the functional parts of prestin had come to look the same in both groups of bats but not in other bats that do not use echolocation, indicating convergent evolution of the protein.

We also found evidence of divergent selection pressures among groups of bats with different sensory modalities based on vision and echolocation.

Surprisingly, our estimates showed that the range of detection distances is rather limited in spite of the large variations in source level within and across functional, phylogenetically distant groups of bats foraging in (acoustically) rather similar habitats.

Estrada-Villegas et al. [21] investigated the responses of two functional groups of bats (open-space foragers versus forest foragers; the latter are adapted to foraging in background-clutter and high-clutter space) to differences in forest fragment size and isolation on islands of differing size and isolation in the Panama canal.

Within the complex, small groups of bats that were reliably located in easily accessible places were videotaped and recorded once a week in the early afternoon (12 00 2 00 pm) for a 52-week period extending from January 2006 to January 2007, although songs were only detected between March and September.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.