insectivorous bat

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insectivorous bat

n
(Animals) any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc. Compare fruit bat
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Effects of food abundance and wind on the use of tree lines by an insectivorous bat. Pipistrellus pipistrellus.
In present study, histological structure of the tongues in relation to diet was studied in Rhinopoma hardwickii as insectivorous bat.
albiventris, an insectivorous bat well known by hunt insects next to the water, frequently found in tropical lowlands associated with watercourses, in colonies of tens to hundreds of individuals, including one genus and two sympatric species, N.
In addition to providing a prey base, structurally complex vegetation may correspond with insectivorous bat morphology.
However, it was not until 1953 that a case of rabies in an insectivorous bat in the U.S.
Bite force mean values previously reported for 10 insectivorous bat species, two facultatively piscivorous Myotis and the piscivorous N.
For some insectivorous bat families (Miniopteridae, Molossidae, Nycteridae, Rhinolophidae), identification was possible only at the genus level; for some Molossidae bats, we could not distinguish between Mops and Chaerephon genera because of the lack of sequences in GenBank (Table 2).
Load carrying and maneuverability in an insectivorous bat: a test of the 5% "rule" of radio-telemetry.
Insectivorous bat activity at cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
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