Do Bats Drink Blood

Author : Barbara A. Schmidt-French,Carol A Butler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813548403

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Do Bats Drink Blood? by Barbara A. Schmidt-French,Carol A Butler Pdf

Bat biologist Barbara A. Schmidt-French and writer Carol A. Butler offer a compendium of insightful facts about bats in this accessible and expertly written question-and-answer volume. Numbering more than one thousand species in our world today, bats in the wild are generally unthreatening. Like most other mammals, bats are curious, affectionate, and even playful with one another. Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and public health. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove of fascinating facts. Featuring rare color and black-and-white photographs, including some by renowned biologist, photographer, and author Merlin Tuttle, Do Bats Drink Blood? provides a comprehensive resource for general readers, students, teachers, zoo and museum enthusiasts, farmers and orchardists, or anyone who may encounter or be fascinated by these extraordinary animals.

Author : Bert Wilberforce
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538209608

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Vampire Bats Drink Blood! by Bert Wilberforce Pdf

"Certain species of bats get their chilling name from a legendary monster, the vampire, and like these revolting fantasy creatures, these bats really do drink the blood of animals. Luckily, vampire bats don't harm people; they're much more interested in the blood of livestock and forest animals. Their bites are so small that they're often undetected by the animals they feed on. Readers will be fascinated by these eerie creatures as well as the awesome photographs of vampire bats in the wild."

Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977155839

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Do Vampire Bats Really Drink Blood? by Ellen Labrecque Pdf

Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Vampire bats
ISBN : 9781398215580

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Do Vampire Bats Really Drink Blood? by Ellen Labrecque Pdf

Vampires are made-up creatures that drink blood. But vampire bats are real! Do they really need to drink blood to survive? You have questions and this book has the answers. Find out about vampire bats, including what they eat and their behaviour.

Author : Anne Welsbacher
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 073680787X

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Vampire Bats by Anne Welsbacher Pdf

Describes vampire bats, their habits, where they live, their hunting methods, and how they exist in the world of people.

Author : Heather Moore Niver
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766077416

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Vampire Bats After Dark by Heather Moore Niver Pdf

Hunting by moonlight, the unique vampire bat is the only known mammal in the world that feeds exclusively on blood! How do these Central and South American bats feed, communicate, reproduce, and roost? Full-page photos share the lives of these nocturnal creatures. Fun facts showcase the vampire bat?s unique adaptations and Words to Know introduce readers to new vocabulary.

Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482439618

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Bloodsucking Vampire Bats by Therese M. Shea Pdf

Many people know that vampire bats drink blood. But most people don’t know that’s the only food adult vampire bats take in. In addition to milk, mother bats feed their babies regurgitated blood when they’re old enough! Readers learn creepy—but true—facts like these throughout the main content. Full-color photographs take readers through the night with vampire bats on the hunt, including a look at a bat actually drinking from livestock! Fact boxes enhance the main content’s focus on this incredible adaptation, adding information about vampire bats’ life-span, size, and more.

Author : Bill Schutt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307381132

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Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt Pdf

“A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the ­latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.

Author : Joel Sartore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781426217777

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The Photo Ark by Joel Sartore Pdf

This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.

Author : Sarah Houghton
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736828346

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Bloodsuckers by Sarah Houghton Pdf

Introduces the world of blood-sucking animals, examining how and why they suck blood, and discussing historical and modern medical uses for such creatures as leeches and vampire bats.

Author : Ronald Orenstein
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770853201

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Ivory, Horn and Blood by Ronald Orenstein Pdf

Meticulous research, chilling facts.... an important and much needed book. -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute If it is understanding you seek, turn these pages. -- Virginia McKenna, OBE, Founder, The Born Free Foundation If you care about elephants and rhinos, and the poaching onslaught that threatens their extinction in the wild, this is the book for you. -- Ian Redmond, OBE, Ambassador, UN Great Apes Survival Program As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Over sixty percent of Africa's Forest Elephants have been killed by poachers since the turn of the century. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese One-horned Rhinoceros and the Western Black rhino have become extinct in the last decade, and the Northern White Rhinoceros, the largest of them all, barely survives in captivity. This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the traffic in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn has far-reaching implications not only for these endangered animals, but also for the human victims of a world-wide surge in organized crime, corruption and violence. Since the worldwide ban on commercial ivory trade was passed in 1989, after a decade that saw half of Africa's elephants slaughtered by poachers, Ronald Orenstein has been at the heart of the fight. Today a new ivory crisis has arisen, fuelled by internal wars in Africa and a growing market in the Far East. Seizures of smuggled ivory have shot up in the past few years. Bands of militia have crossed from one side of Africa to the other, slaughtering elephants with automatic weapons. A market surge in Vietnam and elsewhere has led to a growing criminal onslaught against the world's rhinoceroses. The situation, for both elephants and rhinos, is dire.

Author : Emily Raabe
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0823963225

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Vampire Bats by Emily Raabe Pdf

An introduction to the vampire bat, best know for its diet which consists fo the blood of other animals.

Author : Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467758796

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Vampire Bats by Rebecca E. Hirsch Pdf

"This book covers information (life cycle, appearance, habitat) about the vampire bat. Each chapter discusses an aspect of the vampire bat's life, comparing the bat to a similar mammal and to a very different mammal."--

Author : Arthur M. Greenhall
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351083362

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Natural History of Vampire Bats by Arthur M. Greenhall Pdf

A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded. There are some excellent books on the ecology and biology of bats with very little on vampire bats. This volume fills that gap to provide an in-depth presentation of these unique animals.

Author : Sharon Jennings
Publisher : High Interest Publishing Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1897039182

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Bats in the Graveyard by Sharon Jennings Pdf

An older boy dares Sam and Simon to meet him and his friends inside the graveyard on Halloween night.