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Review: Bats
1 star out of 4.0 stars. Reviewed by James Berardinelli.
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/b/bats.html

Extractions: U.S. Distributor: Destination Films Bats. Rats. Snakes. Spiders. Other insects that creep and crawl. All of these things strike a chord of primal fear in the human heart, but what works at generating terror and revulsion in real life doesn't always translate well to the screen. Bats is not the first motion picture to exploit this psychological weakness, nor will it be the last, but it is one of the least successful. About the only thing the movie has going for it is the release date: a certain percentage of the population, craving a theatrical Halloween movie, will probably see the film out of sheer desperation. And the PG-13 rating helps to widen the potential audience. (Then again, who really wants to see a PG-13 horror flick?) But, when it comes to generating scares, Bats comes up short. Without any vampires, there's a lack of material for fans to sink their teeth into.
Bats: Did You Know?
Did you know? 1.) In North America, bats are the most endangeredland mammal, 2.) bats are considered nature's best bug control.
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/know.html

Extractions: 1.) In North America, bats are the most endangered land mammal 2.) Bats are considered nature's best bug control. 3.) Trees in Africa and South America depend on bats to spread their seeds. 4.) Night blooming flowers depend on bats for pollination. .) The scientific name for bats is Chiroptera meaning "hand-wing". 6.) Bats are the only mammal that can fly. 7.) The largest bat has almost a 6 foot wing span 8.) The smallest bat weighs less than a penny 9.) Besides night insects, bats eat fish, frogs, fruit, nectar, and blood from other mammals 10.) There are almost 1000 species of bats and three are considered vampires 11.) Bats have only one baby a year 12.) Insect eating bats use echolocation to find and catch food. 13.) Bats in cooler climates hibernate or migrate during the winter Return to Bats Home Page
Welcome To The Friends Of Bats Web Site
Extensive information about bats from a bat removal and rescue firm in Florida.Category Recreation Outdoors Wildlife batsA bat exclusion company, also providing rescue, rehabilition and the educationabout bats using only humane exclusion methods that promote bat conservation.
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Article On Vampire Bats From The Making Of "Vampire" Film By Adrian Warren : Pag
Article on bloodsucking Vampire bats and the making of the film Vampire for BBC by the film producer Adrian Warren. Image gallery of bats and other wildlife.
http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/bats/Vampire_Bat_article_page1.html

Extractions: The Making of "VAMPIRE": a film for BBC's Wildlife On One by Adrian Warren..page 1 of 6 Main Article Page [page 1] page 2 page 3 ... next page The Making of "VAMPIRE": a film for BBC's Wildlife On One, 1979 by Adrian Warren Desmodus feeding on a donkey It is curious that the vampire myth, even today, continues to hold public imagination. Count Dracula has appeared in over two hundred films from at least ten countries, as well as in plays, books, comics and on television. Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" has never been out of print, and commercial merchandising includes package holidays to Dracula's castle in Rumania led by an "occult"guide. The story source for Stoker's novel was said to be Vlad Dracul, a 15th century ruler of the Transylvanian province of Wallachia. He apparently had over 23,000 people impaled on wooden stakes, and used to eat his meals while watching their agony. He was a sadist, and a mass murderer, yes, but no vampire. There was a vampire woman, however: an Austrian Countess - Elizabeth Bathony, a society beauty of the Imperial Court. As her looks faded with age, she imagined that the blood of young girls might keep her youthful and, over a period of 15 years, murdered some 600 of them in torture chambers of remote Carpathian castles, draining them of their blood for the sake of her vanity. Her accomplices were sent to the stake in 1611 but because of her high birth she was walled up in her chambers with a hole for air and food. She died three years later.
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Bats
Review of the film
http://www.haro-online.com/movies/bats.html

Extractions: Bats It seems that a monster-type movie has to be released every couple of months. The plot is simple. There are a group of people, some of whom do not get along. There is some sort of monster. Be it a large alligator in Lake Placid , genetically altered sharks in Deep Blue Sea , or the multitude of other examples present, Hollywood keeps pumping these movies out at a furious rate. Sometime, as in The Relic or Mimic (if you can remember the difference), the movie rises, albeit only a little, above the genre and becomes somewhat enjoyable. More often than not, the movie is a silly exercise you sit through and forget. Bats falls squarely into the latter category. The monsters this time are, surprise, bats. Not just normal bats, but ones from Indonesia, about the size of foxes. Because of some shady experiments performed on them, they are now super smart and bloodthirsty. The CDC brings in Dr. Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer, Starship Troopers
Basically Bats Website
Charitable organization based in Georgia, USA dedicated to rehabilitation, research, education, and Category Recreation Outdoors Wildlife bats OrganizationsBasically bats is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to WildlifeRehabilitation. bats In Captivity by Susan Barnard. Basically bats ?
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About Bats
About bats. bats are one of the most misunderstood and persecuted native wildanimals. Myths about bats. bats are blind. Wrong! All bats can see.
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Protect Bats From Extinction
Explains why we should try to protect bats from extinction and gives links to other relevant sites.
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/conserve.html

Extractions: Links and Information Regarding the Conservation of Bats. "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." Baba Dieum Why should we try to protect bats from extinction? 1.) More than 50% of American bat species are in severe decline or already listed as endangered. Losses are occurring at alarming rates worldwide. 2.) Bats decrease the destructive insect population by eating mosquitos, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, locusts, etc. Without insect-eating bats, farmers throughout the world would have to use more chemicals to save their crops from damage caused by insects. Bats are the only major predator of nocturnal flying insects. 3.) Nectar and pollin eating bats are the only source of pollination and reproduction for many night blooming flowers 4.) Fruit eating bats can disperse thousands of seeds a night throughout the forest floor. There are more than 300 plant species that rely on the pollinating and seed dispersal services of bats. Some of these plants include bananas, mangoes, avocados and cashews. 5.) Bat droppings (guano) is one of the best natural fertilizers available to man. In addition, scientists believe the bacteria found in this guano may be useful in cleaning lakes and streams of industrial pollution.
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Bats Northwest - Home
bats Northwest The purpose of bats Northwest is the research and preservationof bats and bat populations in the Northwest and the education of the public
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CHIROPTERA: Bats
Detailed description of the order and its families and genera from Walker's Mammals of the World by Ronald Nowak.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/chiroptera/chiroptera.html

Extractions: The order Chiroptera is divided into two suborders: the Megachiroptera for the single family Pteropodidae, and the Microchiroptera, which includes all the other families. Unfortunately, these terms are somewhat misleading, as some of the Megachiroptera are smaller than some of the Microchiroptera. Studies of brain morphology led Pettigrew 1987) to suggest that the Megachiroptera are actually descendants of an early branch of the order Primates, and thus that bats and the power of flight developed twice in the course of mammalian evolution. This hypothesis, however, was not supported by analysis of mitochondrial DNA ( Bennett et al. The order (including the Megachiroptera) is divided here into 18 families, 186 genera, and 986 species. The sequence of families and genera presented largely follows the arrangement of Koopman b ), who recognized 4 superfamilies within the Microchiroptera: Emballonuroidea, with the families Emballonuridae, Craseonycteridae, and Rhinopomatidae; Rhinolophoidea, with Nycteridae, Megadermatidae, and Rhinolophidae; Phyllostomoidea, with Mormoopidae, Noctilionidae, and Phyllostomidae; and Vespertilionoidea, with Thyropteridae, Myzopodidae, Furipteridae, Natalidae, Mystacinidae, Molossidae, and Vespertilionidae. There are some modifications in the sequence of vespertilionoid families given here, the Hipposideridae are here regarded as a family distinct from the Rhinolophidae, and the Mystacinidae have been transferred to the Phyllostomoidea.
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Welsh Bats
Facilitates communication between bat workers in Wales, and to provide a source of information and reference for the public seeking information on bats and bat groups. Presently basic and holding information mainly on networking conferences.
http://www.welshbats.org.uk

Extractions: We have an e-mail notification service which lets you know whenever this page is updated (you can unsubscribe any time). Just fill in your e-mail address to register. I like other Bat workers I was deeply saddened by the death, on 24th November, last year (2002) of David McRae. He was a gifted wildlife artist and keen bat enthusiast who played a significant role in promoting bat awareness and bat work in Scotland. He took great pleasure in wildlife and mammals in particular, which he expressed in his paintings some of which can still be seen at http://www.gatley.demon.co.uk/cat_david.htm . He will be greatly missed by his friends and fellow bat workers and a great loss to his family. Most bat workers have been busy being vaccinated ready for a busy season. I am pleased to say that all members of the public with whom I have had contact have seen this as an exceptional and unusual case and have not let it affect their appreciation of bats. However we will no doubt have calls from some later in the year with a different point of view. It would be perhaps best to assume as I believe most European bat workers do that EBL is endemic in some species of bats but with very small numbers of individual bats infected at anyone time. In Wales Daubenton's is the UK species most likely candidate. Fortunately this species is seldom encountered in buildings. The Bat Conservation Trust is keen to generate interest in an important forthcoming project. Details are available
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Extractions: UNC Assistive Technology Spatial information is often presented in the form of maps that viewers actively explore to learn about an area. Blind users cannot share the benefits of such a visual representation, and have traditionally relied on audio descriptions, crude tactile maps, guidance from the sighted, or even trial and error in learning the layout of a region. While on-going assistive technology research has yielded a number of promising techniques to help the visually impaired plan daily walks and get directions, little has been done to promote the same kind of spatial awareness provided by maps to the sighted. Moreover, few pieces of software in this domain have ventured out of the lab and into the hands of the general public. The Blind Audio Tactile mapping System (BATS) strives to reverse these two trends by creating a freely available, universally accessible, spatial data exploration tool. The BATS England prototype augments a digital map of ancient England with a number accessibility features to support exploration by a blind user. Text-to-speech synthesis delivers information from user queries into spatial data including location names, location types, and elevations to name a few. Spatial sounds provide a context for user exploration by playing audio cues in the corresponding directions and distances from the users current cursor location on the map. Searching for specific locations and calculating relational distances between two points of interest are also made easy by the software.
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