Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution
Examples
“A few other tetrapod-eating bats can be found in other microbat clades, like Vespertilionidae (more on them in next post).”
“Alas, a recent review found that this arrangement was not as well supported by the data as is the traditional view of microbat monophyly (Jones et al. 2002).”
“At approximately 11cm, they are the biggest microbat in Australia, but are still a third of the size of the fruit bats common to Sydney, and are usually found in North Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.”
“They’re superficially like megadermatids, and even bigger, with Linnaeus’ false vampire Vampyrum spectrum having a wingspan of about 1 m (making it the largest microbat).”
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Just Batty
vesper bat, vampire bat, fruit bat, baseball bat, Roy Batty, Townsend's big-ea..., Kitti's Hog-nosed..., giant golden-crow..., pipistrelle bat, Birdlike Noctule, stellaluna, Allen's Big-eared... and 172 more...
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Echolocation
"Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several animals such as shrews, most bats, and most cetaceans. The term was coined by Donald Griffin, whose work with Robert Gal...
echolocation, biosonar, sonar, shrew, bat, microbat, megabat, dolphin, porpoise, orca, sperm whale, river dolphin and 10 more...
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