leaf-nosed bat

Characterization of novel microsatellite loci in the great leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros armiger and cross- amplification in other related species.

Like all leaf-nosed bats, the newfound mammal has strange, leaf-like projections on its nose that may aid in echolocation -- sending out sound waves and listening for echoes bouncing off objects, including prey.

The actual names for the bats shown are: the Slit-Faced bat, the Spear-Nosed bat, the Tube-Nosed bat, the Pocketed Free-Tailed bat, the Leaf-Nosed bat, and the Flying Fox.

The tunnels easily transformed into habitats for the pacific swallow and the Taiwan leaf-nosed bat, according to CNA.

But one group of bats in Central America and the Caribbean, known as New World leaf-nosed bats, have evolved a wide range of diets, and have the skulls and teeth to match.

Tainan Bureau of Cultural Affairs Director Yeh Tse-shan told reporters that the water purification area is a rich ecological environment, and the water purification building has long been the habitat for Formosan leaf-nosed bats, which are a rare ecological resource.

2013: Hierarchical fruit selection by Neotropical leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae).

Diversification among New World leaf-nosed bats: an evolutionary hypothesis and classification inferred from digenomic congruence of DNA sequence.

Now she's behind the first GPS tracking project to analyse the flight patterns of leaf-nosed bats.

Neotropical leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): "Whispering" bats as candidates for acoustic surveys?.

They investigated why there are so many more species of New World Leaf-Nosed bats, nearly 200, while their closest relatives produced only 10 species over the same period of time.

Jamaican fruit bats (Phyllostomidae: Artibeus jamaicensis) are leaf-nosed bats whose native range includes Brazil, the Bahamas, Antilles, Trinidad, Tobago, Key West, and from central Mexico south to Bolivia.