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    horse against the cemented stone tiles indicating a pathway for the visitors of the zoo. I felt jitters run down my spine from excitement. My mother and I immediately made our way to the crowded bat exhibit, younger children screeching from fear or delight. As the door juters open, the faint smell of bat guano fills the air as a plague. I look up at my mom with my beautiful brown eyes as she holds a smile, attempting not to grimace from the putrid smell. I however, rush inside and straight to the

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    1. For the bat call citizen science project, the theme was that of deciphering bat calls, with the objective of figuring if it was a bat or insect call or mechanical noise. We listened to a small audio clip and used its visual representation, what is called a spectrogram, to help classify bat calls. We did it in three steps. The first step was to vertically mark the frequency of a sound, then highlight horizontally any individual bits of sound, and then consult the field guide to identify the sound

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    The comparison between me or any other creature of the animal kingdom in reference to me as a student would have to be like that of the reduviidae otherwise referred to as the “assassin bug”. It 's consistent thirst for a meal is but a mere reflection of my thirst for knowledge. The means of attack as to which it deploys are quick as well as painless which falls into the nature as to how I accomplish my goals. If by chance a student falls behind or needs aid I will also help them just as assassin

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    involves different lineages evolving similar traits independently, is just one of the many ways. This type of evolution is seen in echolocation in mammals. Echolocation is a phenotypic trait that is known to have evolved independently in two groups of bats (Yangochiroptera and Rhinolophoidea) and in toothed whales such as dolphins. This process involves many different factors, with the most important being production/amplification, nerve transmission/reception, and signal recoding/processing of ultrasonic

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    magazine with bats and their amazing echolocation ability. In the night bats will come out and start munching on their prey, eating insect after insect.“Before the sun rises the next morning, each bat will have eaten as many as 8,000 bugs-without bumping into a single tree or each other. They would use echolocation, a sixth sense that allows them to “see” using sound waves. A mechanical engineer named Rolf Mueller, professor at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. “Bats emit chirps--some

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    Learned About Bats 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

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    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. Montana has 15 known species of bats. Some of the bats are migratory bats. One of interesting things about the bats and migration in Montana is that some bats migrate to stay and winter

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    The New Zealand Lesser Short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) is an endangered bat, endemic to New Zealand. It diverges into three subspecies, of which two are endangered and one is at risk (Department of Conservation [DOC], 2012). It is one of three original native bat species in New Zealand with only two of those species still found today. The Lesser Short-tails are microbats, with pre-foraging adults weighing between 10 to 22 grams (Carter & Riskin, 2006). An adult body length can extend up

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    Fly their drone! In Purple, students start flying line-of-sight (LOS). Best practices in aviation Perform pre-flight configurations and visual inspections. Discuss flight field safety protocols. Discuss the balanced forces that allow drones to hover and the imbalances that enable them to move. Learn how to fly safely and how to respond to emergency situations and out-of-control drones. Practice removing props and unplugging batteries after flying. Cultivate a positive drone community as students

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    Mega Bat Research Paper

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    Bats are nocturnal so they only come out in the night. There are 1,240 types of bats. Of the 1,240 types of bats, only about 70% are insectivores. The rest are fruit eater, or frugivores. There is a few species that feed from animals other than insects. There is two sub orders of bats there are mega bats and micro bats. Mega bats are the one that eat fruits. The micro bats are the highly specialized bats that use echolocation. Bats are found all around the world except really extreme cold weather

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