About 60 results for ‘Bat’
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Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly, and can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. Bats represent about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized and largely fruit-eating 'megachiroptera', or flying foxes, and the more highly specialized and echolocating 'microchiroptera'. About 70% of bats are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being the only parasitic mammalian species. Bats are present throughout most of the world, performing vital ecological roles of pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds. Bats are important in eating insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides. The smallest bat is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat, measuring 29–34 mm (1.14–1.34 in) in length, 15 cm (5.91 in) across the wings and 2–2.6 g (0.07–0.09 oz) in mass. It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, with the Etruscan shrew being the other contender. The largest species of bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, which is 336–343 mm (13.23–13.50 in) long, has a wingspan of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and weighs approximately 1.1–1.2 kg (2–3 lb).
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- Entertainment
- Ethnology
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- Designation:
- marionnette
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- Bat
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- Field(s):
- Entertainment
- Ethnology
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- Designation:
- marionnette
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Cinq études de chauve-souris, d'après le Magasin Pittoresque
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Bat
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean-Jacques Feuchère
Satan
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- Artist(s):
- Pieter Boel
Etude de chauves-souris
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Still life
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Le Monde des Mammifères (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Cyclamen
- Metatheria
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- Date:
- 20th century
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TOURNÉE DU MYSTÉRIEUX / ANDERSON / OMO (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alembic
- Bat
- Beatific vision
- Cage (enclosure)
- Card game
- Cloud
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Albrecht Dürer
Melencolia I
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Bat
- Bell (instrument)
- Book
- Compass (drafting)
- Dog
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- Date:
- 16th century
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L'enfant prodigue
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Domestic pig
- Meadow
- Parable of the Prodigal Son
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Albrecht Dürer
La Mélancolie
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Bell (instrument)
- Book
- Compass (drafting)
- Dog
- Melancholia
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- Date:
- 16th century
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La Chauve-Souris et les deux Belettes, II, 5
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Cave
- Least weasel
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- Date:
- 19th century
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La Mort et le Bûcheron, I, 16
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Distaff
- Forest
- Lumberjack
- Parcae
- Swagger stick
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Middle Ages
- Sculpture
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- Designation:
- gargouille
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Human body
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- Date:
- Middle Ages
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- Artist(s):
- Honoré Daumier
Emile Ollivier
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Caricature
- Man
- Politician
- Portrait
- Satire
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry
La chauve-souris et les deux belettes, II, 5
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bat
- Landscape
- Least weasel
- Tree
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- Date:
- 18th century
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