No sooner does the light of the torch or lamp shine upon the walls, than the clusters of bats detach themselves from the spots to which they had been clinging, and fly to the light like moths to a candle.
These Bats belong to the fruit-eating tribe, and are closely allied to the Flying Foxes of Java, Australia, and Southern Africa.
But the Mole-rat is fond of frequenting deserted ruins and burial-places, so that the Moles and the bats are really companions, and as such are associated together in the sacred narrative.
Two fell to our shot, and I was delighted to find myself the possessor of a couple of large fox-headed bats of the genus Pteropus (Xantharpya aegyptiaca), and extending twenty and a half inches from wing to wing.
As none of the bats of Palestine are yet known, this was a great prize, and another instance of the extension westward of the Indian fauna.
Sometimes, when travellers have been exploring the chambers of ruined buildings, or have endeavoured to penetrate into the recesses of rocky caves, they have been repelled by the bats which had taken up their habitation therein.
These edible Bats have other habits not shared by the generality of their kin.
But all modern naturalists, who retain the order Primates, agree to exclude from it the bats or Cheiroptera; and most of them class Man as one of several families of the order Primates.
It is said that one of the bats in the island of Palma (one of the Canaries) is of a peculiar species, and that some of the Cheiroptera of the Pacific islands are even of peculiar genera.
In 1928 when Miller and Allen published their account of "The American bats of the Genera Myotis and Pizonyx" (Bull.
In preparing this taxonomic account of bats of the genus Myotis, the specimens (type and two from Papayo) of Pipistrellus cinnamomeus seem not to have been examined.
And we sat on the edge of a sandy ledge And shot at the whistling bee; And the Binnacle-bats wore water-proof hats As they danced in the sounding sea.
They met most of the house trooping out of the quad, with bats and pads, but not in flannels.
With a little more first-class cricket would have been one of the best bats in England; a rapid scorer with great hitting powers.
The bell-ringer was hurrying through the naves, shaking his bunch of keys and startling the bats which were becoming more and more numerous.
The early twilight of the winter evenings was beginning to darken the Cathedral, and the first bats were coming down from the vaulting and fluttering through the columns.
I thought I heard as I came up the shrieks of a thousand bats tearing from their crannies in the recesses of a cavern; and it was the outcry only of these poor mutes, whom you were so unmercifully abusing.
Shouldst thou be such a fool as to visit them, the portal of the subterranean palace will be shut in thy face, and with such force as shall shake thee asunder; thy body shall be spit upon, and bats will engender in thy belly.
As we have already remarked, some authorities, when these creatures were first brought to light, considered them to be mammals, as bats are.
The absence of feathers to retain the heat of the body need not be regarded as conclusive, for bats are warm-blooded animals, and in their case the heat of the body is retained by a slight downy covering to the skin.
Now, the record of the rocks tells us that one great order of reptiles somehow acquired the power of flying, and flitted about as bats or flying-foxes do now.
An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats BY OLIN L.
None was found on subsequent visits to the quarry, although three other species of bats have been found there in large numbers.
Revision of the North American bats of the family Vespertilionidae.
Nebraska has no natural caves or caverns; however, there are two extensive man-made limestone caves near Louisville, in Cass and Sarpy counties, where four kinds of bats have been found.
The bats were congregated on rafters at the north end of the barn and when disturbed, only a few members of the colony dropped from the rafters to fly.
Bats were first observed in the National Stone Quarry by one of us (Webb) as early as 1939, less than a year after operations in the quarry ceased.
Most of the bats crawled to new retreats between the rafters and the corrugated iron roof of the building.
The 38 bats were from a colony of approximately 75 individuals, found on the south side of a house.
The paper was loose and had buckled in numerous places allowing room for the bats to ensconce themselves between the paper and outside wall.
Alcorn searched ten frame buildings in an abandoned camp on the east side of Screw Creek, for bats and found only the one bat.
When he struck a match a flight of bats whirred out of the doorway, and the Abbè's breath whistled through his teeth.
Above his head, the bats were describing complicated figures against a ceiling which had once been painted in the Italian style, to represent a trellis roof, with roses and vines entwined.
The bats are thought to be the spirits of departed kings, and none are allowed to molest them.
It was then also that I knew that the black bats would be abroad, so as to make it unlikely our movements would be observed, since the inhabitants of Porne would be shut up in their houses.
You played with Helen, I sat apart—and watched you—and then I got to watching the birds and the bats and the insects that flew instead—sometimes.
Pictures of birds, of bats and of butterflies and of man-made aircraft covered the walls.
But it would have made no difference whether he had had the ball at that time or not, for Jimmy had completed the circuit of the bases, and the bat boy was picking up the scattered bats and mitts by Queen's bench.
Its distance from other large continents is so great that accidental colonization has been very slight, only extending to a few bats and a few rats.
As already said, there are no true mammals at all in Australia, except a few bats and rats which have come accidentally from abroad.
On the other hand, the true typical mammals are entirely absent, with the exception of a fewbats and a few rats, which have evidently been accidentally introduced from abroad.
To this day I cannot hear it without a certain swelling to let in the smell of the summer dusk and the flitter of the bats outside and the quaver of my mother's voice.
He explained, first of all, that the vampire-bats are so large and ferocious that they often kill horses and cattle by sucking their blood out.
Should the bats die, the parasites of necessity share the same fate.
Another small cave was inhabited by bats only, and so thickly were they suspended from the walls, that one could kill a dozen at one blow.
In the cave, the swallows breed at the inner end, while the bats congregate near the mouth.
The action of these bats when climbing a vertical branch, is similar to a man's in shinning up a pole.
These are the homes of thousands of tiny leaf-nosed bats (Hipposideros nicobarulae, sp.
Directly under the ledge, he found a small hole in the wall, whichbats seemed to have inhabited in the past.
Slowly Sime resumed: "The bats had begun to disperse in various directions, but the panic which had seized upon the camp does not seem to have dispersed so readily.
He thought of the headless bats and of how he, in crawling out into the shaft ahead, must lay himself open to a similar fate!
There is a small colony of bats in this pyramid, of course; but the bat does not hunt in bands, and the sight of these bats flying out from the place was one which Ali Mohammed had never witnessed before.
The exodus of the bats points to the fact that it was again used for one of those purposes last night; the exodus of the bats--and something else.
In spite of the bears and bats that I encountered in my dreams, I awoke quite refreshed, and did full justice to the beautiful breakfast of bear-collops, milk, and maize bread.
We disturbed immense numbers of bats with our torches, and found also several crickets and a few bluebottle flies.
Gladys was always more restless and suffering towards evening; 'her bad thoughts,' as she called them, came out like batsin the darkness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
