21. Chiroptera Life history, ecology, fossil record, systematics, and morphology of bats. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chiroptera.html

Chiroptera Night fliers Small and furry, bats are the only mammals to have achieved powered flight. Their arms are spindly, with membranes stretched between the fingers on each hand. This arrangement makes their wings quite different from those of birds and pterosaurs , and in fact the bats have evolved flight quite independently. Bats also differ from other flying animals in their reliance on hearing for navigation. Many bats use sonar echos to find their way around. Despite their resemblance to rodents , bats are not closely related to mice at all. Though their exact placement is still uncertain, there is recent evidence that they may be more closely related to the primates . Whatever their relationships, bats are among the most successful groups of mammals: there are nearly 1,000 species of bats around the world, making up about one quarter of all mammal species. Click on the buttons below to learn more about the Chiroptera. UCMP Special Exhibit: Vertebrate Flight Want to learn more about flight? What do a pterosaur, a bat, and a bird have in common? How do we know they evolved flight independently? Find out for yourself! Bat Conservation International site.

22. LHS Bat Quiz How much do you know about bats? Test your knowledge by answering 9 True/False questions. Your score will be calculated as you go, and after answering all http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/batquiz/

Play Bat Quiz Bat Quiz How much do you know about bats? Test your knowledge by answering 9 True/False questions. Your score will be calculated as you go, and after answering all nine questions, we'll tell you your score. Good luck! Start the Bat Quiz Here are some links to get you started: Animal Bytes: Bats Chiroptera: Night Flyers Organization for Bat Conservation Please take our web survey! ... lhsweb@berkeley.edu Updated July 17, 2006

23. Bats bats often make people think of vampires, creatures of the night, and Halloween. Beyond the myth and folklore, bats are one of the most important groups of http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/bat.html

Learn More About Bats Bat Myths Costa Rican Bat Night Echolocation Livingstone's Fruit Bat Mexican Free-tailed Bat Rodrigues Fruit Bat ... Vampire Bats Dr. Merlin Tuttle / Perfil de Merlin Tuttle Arnulfo Moreno-Valdez / Perfil de Arnulfo Moreno-Valdez Teacher Resources Bat Books Bat Study for Early Elementary Bat and Moth Tag Student Work Avacado Bats Vampire Bat Bat Antics Peculiar Things About Bats ... Bat Reproducation Bats often make people think of vampires, creatures of the night, and Halloween. Beyond the myth and folklore, bats are one of the most important groups of animals. Bats are one of the most numerous kinds of mammals with nearly 1000 different species. They are highly adapted animals, and can be found in all but the coldest habitats. Bats are mammals that belong to the order Chiroptera (ky-rop-tera), which means, "winged hand". The wings or hands of a bat have very long finger bones covered by a strong skin. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Like all mammals, they are "warm-blooded", have bodies covered with fur, and nurse their young (pups) with milk. There are two main groups of bats - the large "flying foxes" that eat fruit, and the smaller insect-eating bats. There are also bats that feed on the nectar of flowers, and those that eat small animals, like fish and frogs. Nearly all bats are helpful animals. In fact, tropical rainforests could not survive without bats. Bats are responsible for controlling pest insect populations, pollinating flowers, and dispersing seeds. One insect-eating bat can catch 500-1000 insects in one hour! Many plants must be pollinated by bats to produce fruit (see side bar). The only way some plants have of dispersing seeds is through bats.

24. Mike West, Duke University We have an ftp site for updates of the bats software that accompanies the book. You can find this at ftp.stat.duke.edu/pub/bats/. http://www.stat.duke.edu/~mw/bats.html

Mike West Duke University Home Teaching Publications Software, data etc ... Other links Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis Andy Pole, Mike West and Jeff Harrison erratum for 1994 first edition Our 1994 book Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis (Chapman-Hall, New York) is distributed by CRC Press Tel: +44 208 875 4387, Fax: +44 208 871 3443, e-mail: jnaim@crcpress.com The ISBN of the book is ISBN 0412044013 We have an ftp site for updates of the BATS software that accompanies the book. You can find this at ftp.stat.duke.edu/pub/bats/. Current files include include zipped versions of DOS and Windows 3.1 (in bats.zip), and the executable for the new Windows95 versions (wbats95.exe). Unfortunately, the software has not been upgraded to more recent versions of Windows or ported to other operating systems, and there are currently no plans to do do. The DATASETS directory contains the many BATS data sets, and is expected to be augmented with new data sets in future. Enquiries or question to APole@Tiedemannfunds.com (Andy Pole)

25. Gander Academy's Bats Theme Page This site from Gander Academy is designed for P and E students and teachers and lists bat resources on the world wide web. http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/bats.htm

Elementary Themes Bats Theme Page and Online Activities Featured in May 2001 Student Activity Sheets Activity Support Web Pages Theme Pages Research Topics on Bats General Resources Bat Anatomy Bat Types Bat Species ... Jim Cornish, Grade Five Teacher, Gander Academy, Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. This page was last updated on October 2002. You have made the visit to our theme pages.

26. Aerodynamics Of Animals - Bats - Beginner bats are mammals. Their bodies have fur. bats are born alive. bats do not come from eggs. They drink milk from their mother s breasts. http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Animals/beginner/bats-01.html

Bats page 1 Introduction A long time ago people thought bats were mice. People thought bats were birds. Bats are mammals. Their bodies have fur. Bats are born alive. Bats do not come from eggs. They drink milk from their mother's breasts. Bats live all over the earth. Most live in Africa. bat Web Hosting Provided By The National Business Aviation Association Explore Space ... Not Drugs! Hear what astronauts have to say about staying drug-free. Last modified: Wed Jul 2 11:43:22 PDT 1997

27. ANIMAL BYTES - Bats ANIMAL BYTES bats Find quick information and fun facts about animals. http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/d

ANIMAL BYTES MAIN PORIFERANS CNIDARIANS MOLLUSCANS ... SEARCH THE SITE BATS SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION FAST FACTS FUN FACTS BIBLIOGRAPHY ... MENU - CHIROPTERA SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION COMMON NAME: bats KINGDOM: Animalia PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Mammalia ORDER: Chiroptera (hand wing) SUBORDER: FAMILY: 18 families GENUS SPECIES: 180 genera, 900 species RETURN TO TOP FAST FACTS DESCRIPTION: Varies according to species SIZE: L argest wingspan - flying foxes 2 meters (78.74 in.) Smallest wingspan - bumblebee bat 16 cm (6.24 in.) WEIGHT: 14 g - 1.5 kg (0.5 oz. - 3.3 lb.)

28. Bats: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department Of Fish And Game Bat species description from the Wildlife Notebook Series publication Alaska Department of Fish and Game. http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/smgame/bats.php

@import url(/css/cf_only/ala6_alpha.css); @import url(/css/cf_only/ala6_alpha.css); @import url("/css/cf_only/onceinline2.css"); Skip to Main Page Content Contacts Licenses/Permits Regulations ... www.adfg.state.ak.us Bats Unique and remarkable in their ability to fly, these winged mammals are uncommon residents of Alaska. Although six different species of bats are listed as occurring in the state, they are not found in abundance here. Their distribution is generally limited to Southeast Alaska, a few scattered locales in Southcentral Alaska, and as far north as the Yukon River in the Interior. General description: The six species known to occur in the state belong to the order Chiroptera (hand wing) and the family Vespertilionidaethe "evening bats." As their name suggests, they are nocturnal. Bats rely on a well-developed sonar system, emitting squeaks that are most often too high-pitched to be heard by humans. The sound waves bounce off solid objects, and in this way bats can quickly and accurately detect the location of flying insects or obstacles in their flight path. The most common and wide ranging bat in the state is the little brown bat ( Myotis lucifugus ). Three other myotis species occur in Alaska: the long-legged bat (

29. ADW: Chiroptera: Information Taxonomy of bats from the Animal Diversity Web. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chiroptera.html

Overview News Technology Conditions of Use ... Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Chiroptera Order Chiroptera bats Information Pictures Specimens Sounds ... Classification editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/200508103038') 2008/03/16 03:12:33.089 GMT-4 By Matthew Wund and Phil Myers Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Members of this Order Diversity Bats are the second-most speciose group of mammals , after rodents . The approximately 925 species of living bats make up around 20% of all known living mammal species. In some tropical areas, there are more species of bats than of all other kinds of mammals combined. Hill and Smith, 1984 Nowak, 1991 Vaughan, Ryan, and Czaplewski, 2000 Bats are often divided into two major groups, usually given the rank of suborders, Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera. Although these groups probably do not represent monophyletic lineages (discussed in more detail below), there are several relevant ecological differences between them. These groups will be used throughout this account in describing the diversity of bat life histories. Teeling et al., 2002

30. Major League Baseball Auctions - Bats - Test BJ Upton Autographed Black Big Stick Bat 1 Shortstop Prospect. Current Bid $ 89.99 Autographed Don Mattingly T141 model bat w/ Donnie Baseball insc http://auction.mlb.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/CategoryDisplay?cgrfnbr=22763&cgmenbr=

31. B A T S And bats well, poor bats in Western culture, they ve often suffered the fate of being dropped usually into those spooky, scary, or dangerous http://www.sepulchritude.com/suffer/volumethree/bats.html

B A T S A Personal Essay on the Order Chiroptera with Parenthetical Tangents by Mordantia Bat If you were searching for more practical bat advice rather than a personal essay, see these recommended links NOTE: The article below was originally written in 1999. Pertinent updates are noted within the text of the article when warranted. umans tend to anthropomorphize their relationships with the other species of this planet. Any and all adjectives are attributed to our fellow species what animals do you conjure up when hearing such adjectives as fluffy, cute, edible, spooky, dangerous, gross, loyal, or noble? I would bet, given the audience of this 'zine, many of you adamantly thought, "Snakes. Snakes are fluffy." Yes, a minor challenge to the usual entrenched generalizations, that, and one I believe even speaks of a kind of reverence for the animals themselves. Idiosyncratic adjectives always bring a giddy smile to my face. Nevertheless, I am sure you must know what I am talking about when I speak instead of the typical descriptions people are wont to use. And bats well, poor bats in Western culture, they've often suffered the fate of being dropped usually into those spooky, scary, or dangerous categories. Terrifying or sometimes cutesy sanitized images of them are trotted out at Hallowe'en and in horror movies. Communities frequently worry about them as a health or safety concern, sometimes citing (erroneously, by the way) that most bats are rabid.

32. Bats Northwest Habits, habitat needs, health concerns, scientific research and community outreach. Based in Washington State. http://www.batsnorthwest.org/

Bats Northwest "helping bats in Washington State" BNW Home Events Meet Our Bats Bat FAQs ... Site Map Introduction Bats Northwest is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1996 by scientists, educators, and interested lay people to help protect Pacific Northwest bat populations through education and research. To this end we work to educate the general public about bats, we join with government biologists to research and protect local bat populations, we act as a conduit of information about bats, and we encourage responsible attitudes and actions in human/bat conflicts.

33. Home | Rabies Information on rabies, a viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal, is now available for both professionals and the http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/

@import url('http://www.cdc.gov/css/global.css'); @import url('css/local.css'); Welcome to the CDC Rabies site. Skip directly to the search box site navigation , or content Primary Navigation for the CDC Website Home About CDC Press Room A-Z Index ... Contact Us Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC en Español Search: Go Button: Rabies Spotlight: Stray Kitten, Scary Problem, Safety First Contact with stray, unowned, or otherwise unfamiliar animals can sometimes result in exposure to rabies. In this broadcast, Dr. Kira Christian discusses a recent multistate investigation that involved several children and adults who had handled a stray kitten during a sporting event. General Information Rabies Exposure What you need to know about rabies exposure and vaccination. Bats and Rabies The problem of bat-related rabies, how to handle encounters with bats, and how to "bat-proof" your home. Information for Specific Groups Just For Kids State Health Department Veterinarians Healthcare Professionals * Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links. Page last modified: March 6, 2008

34. Night Wings - The Bats Of Austin The Austin Saga of the Freetail bats plays out nightly under Austin skies as this tourist attraction entertains thousands who come to see the bats of http://www.io.com/house/batstory.html

History of Freetail Bats in Austin ... In 1980, while reconstructing the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin, bridge engineers had no idea that new crevices created beneath the bridge would make an ideal place for a bat roost. Even though they had lived there for years, it was headline news when bats suddenly began moving in under the Austin bridge by the thousands. After the novelty of this unusual occurrence had worn off, the public began to react in fear. Many activists within the Austin community began petitioning to have the colony eradicated. About that time, a group now know as Bat Conservation International, stepped in and began an educational process about the bats. They educated Austinites to the fact that they are gentle and incredibly sophisticated animals, and that they eat from 10,000 to 30,000 pounds of insects, including mosquitoes, each night. The campaign proved to be successful as Austin came to appreciate its bats and even erected a bat sculpture in honor of this unique and spectacular mammal. Since then, the population under the Congress Avenue Bridge has grown to be the largest urban colony in North America. Up to 1.5 million make nightly flights creating a most unusual tourist attraction for Austin. They arrive in mid-March and return to Mexico in early November. They emerge at different times every night, but the hotter and drier the weather gets, the earlier they will get hungry and set out for food.

35. Austin Ice Bats Official site. Schedule, team news, fan club information. http://www.icebats.com/

insideof='1'; page='Variables.pagename'; Thank You Fans! Your Austin Ice Bats would like to thank all our fans, especially our season ticket holders and corporate partners for their support in a remarkable 2007-2008 season! Check back often during the off-season for updates on plans for 2008-2009, or get the latest Ice Bats news delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for Wingmail The team will be moving out of offices at Chaparral Ice Arena effective at the end of April, but you may still contact us at 512-927-PUCK or info@icebats.com . We are looking forward to seeing you again soon. Best in Hockey, Ice Bats Management Follow the 2007-08 CHL Ray Miron President's Cup Playoffs... best viewed with 800x600 resolution or better, IE 5.5 or better Website designed by: Website Outfitters. Photos provided by: Lauren Gilgan.

36. Index Fruit bats. ENSKRIBI. http://fruitbatsmusic.com/

37. WDFW - WildWatchCams A maternity colony is where many female bats congregate and have their young. Not active this year. The bats return next year, hope you will too! http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/batcam/index.html

What is the BatCam? This is a picture of the ceiling inside an old log cabin that contains a maternity colony of the Townsend's big-eared bat ( Corynorhinus townsendii ). A maternity colony is where many female bats congregate and have their young. And yes, there really are bats here 125 to 150, in fact but at times you won't be able to see all or even any of them. That's because bats don't have a stationary nest. Instead, they move themselves and their young according to temperature. On a cool day a hundred of them may be clustered together at the top of the ceiling; on warm days they may be scattered individually or in dozens around the cabin ceiling. Around 8:30 or 9 p.m. they may be seen flying to leave the cabin to forage for food (although the image, refreshed only every 15 seconds or so, may be blurry.) Full Story Update February 2008 Not active this year. The bats return next year, hope you will too!

38. Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Bat Facts Information or research assistance regarding bats is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/batfacts.htm

About Smithsonian Websites A-Z Home Encyclopedia Smithsonian ... Science and Technology Bat Facts I nformation or research assistance regarding bats is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this topic. Mormoopidae: Pteronotus parnellii (Mustached bat), Brazil. Photo by L. H. Emmons Western civilization has generally regarded bats with superstition, fear, and uncertainty. Too often, popular misconceptions have labeled them as "dirty," "disease carriers," or "blood suckers," an unenviable reputation to be sure. Only in China, expressed in art and handicrafts, has the bat achieved respectability as a symbol of happiness and good luck. This document attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural history of these shy, nocturnal creatures. What are they?

39. 96-97 YLP-mini Units This unit was developed to be a two week thematic unit on bats. A unit on bats is a great way to expand of the concepts of observing and classifying. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/ylp/96-97/96-97_mini_units/Bats_MClaeys/bat.html

BATS: Creatures of the Night By Marcie Claeys Images obtained from Bat Conservation International Grade Level: Second Rationale: I chose this topic because it was scheduled as a unit in my second eight week placement. This unit uses a combination of science discovery centers, small group activities, and whole group discussions. During the second week of the unit, the students were able to observe "bats" in a "cave" that had been set up in the classroom. This unit was developed to be a two week thematic unit on bats. This unit introduces a lesson on mammals, which they will be studying this winter. BAT UNIT GOALS Identify the various parts of a bat's anatomy. Distinguish between bats and birds. Identify the differences between Microbats and Megabats. Identify bat habitats and the characteristics that make these locations attractive to bats. Describe how echolocation is used to locate objects and navigate surroundings. OVERVIEW Return to the 96-97 Lesson Plan page Return to the 96-97 YLP page (This unit is formatted for the web by Shwu-yi Leu)

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