Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotesYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Subjects: AnimalsPublisher: New York, McLoughlin brosContributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDigitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel HillView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:BATS. THE BATText Appearing After Image:VAMPIRE BAT (% Natural Size). man, makes a tiny puncture with its sharp tooth, and proceeds to draw theblood, but in the cases of horses and cattle it selects the shoulders and flanksto operate upon. After all, the main diet of the bat species is insects. It isinteresting to examine the ground near where bats are resting and see themarvellous collection of beautiful insect wings scattered around. Bats maketheir homes in church-steeples, barns, and out-houses, where they lay quietlyall day, hanging head down, after the fashion of their kind. Then as the sungoes down they come out in thousands. In the country they fly over the richmeadows and edges of the woods, while in cities they buzz around the electriclights, which attract vast numbers of insects. Bats have always been a sourceof much superstition and dread. In many parts of England a bat flying in ata window is supposed to foretell a death, or if one should alight upon ahorse or cow the owner will expect some bad luck. The scientiNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Myotis crypticus pictured on a swarming site from the Jura Mountains in the province of Vaud. Français : Myotis crypticus photographié sur un site de swarming dans le Jura vaudois. Date: 14 August 2013, 17:19:31. Source: Own work. Author: Manuel Ruedi (Natural History Museum of Geneva). Permission(Reusing this file): : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2019021910009088. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2019021910009088.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A sketch of the holotype of Eptesicus isabellinus. Date: 1840. Source: Monographies de mammalogie, ou Description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Author: Coenrad Temmick.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Image of the lower teeth of a microbat. Specimen from the Pacific Lutheran University Natural History collection. Date: 17 April 2018. Source: Own work. Author: Caduceus19.