Vampire Bats Are Beneficial To The Environment

“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” is American philosopher, Thomas Nagel’s, opinion on the widely debated mind-body problem. Nagel introduces the paper by explaining what it means for something to be conscious. He defines consciousness as an organism’s ability for there to be something it is like to be that organism. Using his definition of consciousness Nagel suggests that physicalism cannot be successfully defended using the popular reductionism theory. This is because in order to be defended a physical account must be given to phenomenological features themselves. This leads Nagel to his argument, “Every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will

White-Nosed Syndrome and the Hopeful Cure One the most underestimated animals in the United States is the bat. It is either the side-kick or essence of doom or evil in most Halloween stories. This nocturnal animal is a highly necessary part of society and their need in our ecosystem. Just like most animals, the loss of a species is due to death, disease, or human exposure, creates a trickledown effect on all other aspects of life. Due to their necessity, the White-Nosed Syndrome plaguing bats today must be rectified to preserve the ecosystem of caves and the balance of insects in the world today.

In the text “Vampires Never Die,” by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, the authors main purpose is to tell the origin of vampires and how the perception of vampires has changed throughout history. Although the myth of an undead monster was created before the word “vampire” ever was, this text begins with a story told by John William Polidori that created the two main branches of vampire fiction known today. These branches include the vampire as a romantic hero and the vampire as an undead monster. Moreover, Polidori’s creation was widely accepted as being based upon Lord Byron, a superstar in the era of the 1800s. This new twist to an old idea was thought of by Polidori because he was a doctor and friend to Lord Byron. Nonetheless, Polidori resented Lord Byron 's charm, physique, and brilliance thus creating the alter egos. However, this text also suggest vampires may have originated from the repressed memories humans had as primates. Therefore, out of necessity, people may have been cannibalistic. In addition, this text suggest that vampires do not wish to destroy human lives but rather live for eternity. Furthermore, vampire characters are often used today in a variety of media ranging anywhere from cereal boxes to romantic fiction. Additionally, Polidori’s “Dracula” vampire movie was a success due to the featuring of new technology at the time including telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. Today, the world is exposed to wireless technology and is

There is a debate between scientists whether vampire bats should be killed or not. Firstly, ranchers, believe that vampire bats should be killed. For example, Chris Kraul a writer for the Los Angeles Times, shares that bats are feasting and killing off the cattle. Thus, this point proves that bats should be killed(Kraul). Secondly, Researchers believe that bats should be saved. For instance, Kraul reports that the theory for all of the attacks on the livestock are cause by timber cutting so the bats are losing food rich forests so they head toward the cattle for food. Therefore, this confirms that it is our fault for the bats attacking the livestock. Thirdly, I believe that bats should not be killed. To illustrate, Kraul tells bat based research

Many women across around the world are victims of abuse. A handful of them is harassed and faced unfair treatment. In fact, domestic violence gets so bad and many individuals lose their lives. The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is 6614. In contrast, in the same period of time, 11,766 women in the United States were murdered due to domestic abuse. A short story called “The Bats”, written by Chitra Divakaruni is a tale in which a girl and her mother escape to a far relative due to constant and traumatizing abuse. However, this is a repetitive process due to the fact that the mother returns upon believing that the father has changed and will treat them both differently. Due to the fact that the mother returns

A donor bat will give blood to a bat that has not had a meal so that this bat can have the opportunity to hunt again, giving an increased chance that it will reciprocate to another bat that has not had a meal, enabling the roost to maintain survival. In the event that a recipient bat does not reciprocate in the future, that bat will not be donated to if it needs it in the future, thus allowing for recipient bats to be donor bats in the future as needed.

I read the article A Better Bat. The article is about a new type of bat company called the axe bat. The bottom of that bat has an angled bottom to fit your hand better. That is why it is called a axe bat because the bottom is the same shape as an axe. They also have a flared over shaped handle, so it fits in your palm better. This is an all new designed bat.

Draculin is a protein found in the saliva of vampire bats. Vampire bats drink blood to sustain themselves. The vampire bats contrary to popular beliefs do not suck the blood from their prey. They let the prey to bleed and lap up the gushing blood.

The vampires in Bloodrayne are seen as villains because they are predators who hunt humans for their blood similar to the nosferatu vampires that were discussed in class who mindlessly attack humans for their blood.

Fieldwork was done within or on the periphery of Fort Collins, Colorado. The elevation in Fort Collins is 1,525M. The climate is temperature and semiarid with a 4-season cycle, averaging 300 days of sunshine. During the winter month, temperature are -2 °C. Summertime it is 22 °C. The big difference can affect the hibernation of the bats. The ArcView was used to survey and analyze the different areas used in the study. A fragmented forest was used in the experiment because it is a big brown bats most preferred habitat. The fragmented forested area was development free that has a least 20-30% of fires. In fragmented areas, it is in a stage that contains decent number of pine snags

Montana wants to keep its healthy population of bats. They are helpful to have around. Just one little brown bat, one of the most common bats in Montana, can eat 1,200 nocturnal insects an hour. Think of the mosquitoes that could be managed by a healthy population of bats. They also help control beetles, leafhoppers, fleas and moths.

The crowd loves a batter who can hit sixes. If you want to hit the ball as fast and far as possible, should you use a light or heavy bat? That's an age old question with plenty of answers, but which is the correct answer? Light bats can be swung faster than heavy bats, but only about 10% faster (for the usual range of bat weights). Imagine hypothetically that the bat weighs 10 grams - light as a feather. If you swing it as fast as possible, you might get the tip to travel at say 160 km/hr. Now double the weight to 20 gm. This time the tip travels at about 159 km/hr. The problem here is that your arms weigh about 8 kg all up, so the extra 0.01 kg is hardly noticeable. Most of the effort needed to swing a bat goes into swinging the arms. That's

Some of the well-known bats species in this order are Pteropus, otherwise known as the flying fox or fruit bat, the Desmodus Rotundus which is the common vampire bat, and the Myotis Lucifugus which is the very well know little brown bat. Some of the interesting things about these three bats are that the Pteropus is the largest bat in the world and the Desmodus Rotundus is the only mammal in the world to survive only on blood. Even though the Myotis Lucifugus is very common and doesn’t have anything that makes it particularly extraordinary is a model organism for studying bats, without it we probably wouldn’t know many of the things we known today about these

Here are some things I know about bats. Bats are nocturnal, which means they are active at night. They use echo location. Bats aren’t very good with their eyesight, they’re nearly blind! So for this they use their hearing, which is echo location. With echo locations bats send out a sound which spreads out, other animals in the location have these sounds bounce off their body going back to the bat. Which then helps the bats find prey or help with their motion of direction. Bats are also mammals this means they are warm blooded. Some bats carry diseases so if you got a nasty bite from a bat you could possibly get ill.

Humanity has long been fascinated with the idea of immortal beings and mystical creatures. For generations, monsters have caused people to fear the black of night and the unknowns of our world. Each era produces a different monster that is tied to epidemics and problems that surround a certain demographic area in the world. What makes monsters “real” and why? Monsters have always been a collaboration of culture, significance, and knowledge that contribute to how society accepts and/or considers the idea of what makes a subject monstrous. In the past, the timeless monsters were created to mask the fear of the unknown, but with today’s medical knowledge, the truth behind the fear of the monster is just disease.