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Bats: Glossary
A
- audible
- able to be heard or to hear
- assistive device
- an invention or tool that helps people with disabilities perform tasks or activities
C
- Chiroptera
- scientific name for bats
- carnivores
- meat eaters
- clotting
- the process of blood that allows it to stop flowing from an injury
- conservation
- protecting nature and its resources
D
- distinctive
- unique, like no other
E
- echo
- a sound reflected from a surface
- echolocation
- natural ability of some animals to use echoes for locating food and navigation
- economy
- the system of how money, goods and services are produced and used within a country or region
- elevated
- a high point, a position of significant height
- erratic
- unpredictable, not in a regular pattern
- essential
- necessary or critical
- excrement
- body waste or poop
F
- fangs
- sharp teeth that can pierce food or skin
- fertilizer
- a material that improves the soil
G
- germinate
- to begin growth
- guano
- bat poop (see "excrement")
H
- habitat
- environment where an animal lives
- hibernation
- the practice of sleeping through winter to conserve energy
I
- insectivore
- animal whose diet is insects
L
- litter
- a group of animal babies born at one time to a mother animal
M
- mammal
- animals that have live births, feed milk to their young and have hair or fur
- maneuver
- move position with agility and purpose
- migration
- a pattern of moving from one location to another, depending on seasonal changes
N
- nectar
- the sweet liquid produced by a flowering plant
- nocturnal
- animals that hunt at night and sleep during the day
P
- pesticides
- chemicals used to kill insect pests
- pollinate
- to move pollen from one part of a plant to another
- potential
- possible, may come into being in the future
- predators
- animals who hunt other animals for food
- puncturing
- to poke a hole
R
- rabies
- an infectious disease
- retractable
- able to be pulled back in
- rodents
- small nibbling mammals such as mice, rats, and squirrels
- roost
- bat living area
S
- saliva
- spit
- sonar
- a method of finding objects underwater by sending and reflecting sound waves
- stroke
- a medical condition where a blood vessel in the brain bursts or is blocked, causing damage to the brain
T
- tropics
- regions of the earth near the equator with a moist, warm climate
U
- urban
- city environment
V
- vaccine
- a substance developed by scientists to protect people or animals from a specific disease
- vegetarian
- animal whose diet is plants
W
- white-nose syndrome
- serious fungal disease among North American bats that disrupts their winter hibernation, causing them to wake up before spring and leading to starvation and death
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