Firstly, Vampire bats and their survival are important to the food chain and are a secondary pollinator leading to increases in plant based food production of which helps to prevent famine in a particular area where they are common. Many tropical to subtropical and desert plants depend on bats for pollination. These plants include but are not limited to mangoes, bananas, and desert plants like the fruit of the cactus etc. A bat pollinates by landing on a plant and/or flower and the pollen of that plant sticks to bat's fur as the bat continues to do this the traits and attributes of the parent plants are spread to cover a larger area. In recent years the poverty rate has soared in recent years leading to as many as many as ten thousand people …show more content…
While vampire bats do not consume insects such as mosquitos most other species of bats do so and as such the attempted culling of the vampire bat population often affects to populations of other bat species that are harmed and or killed because of them being confused for vampire bats and being killed because of it. A typical female brown bat weighs roughly forty grams and consume their entire body weight in one night. If a brown bat were to consume strictly mosquitos, they would be able to consume sixteen thousand mosquitoes in a night. Meaning that under perfect circumstances a singular brown bat could consume approximately sixteen thousand mosquitos that may be carrying diseases in a single night. One hundred would represent a more conservatively oriented estimate. While I understand the viewpoint of the culling of the vampire bat population to reduce rabies recent studies have shown that this may be counterproductive. This is because younger vampire bats have a higher immunity and more rabies antibodies in there system. This is because younger healthy vampire bats are one of the most active groomers meaning that they are the most affected by culling via poisons. Because of this the bats with higher resistance to rabies will not have children and spread this trait onto their
The Bat 6 game was everything, the most important event for 6th-grade girls, and this was the 50th game. In 1899 — 49 years before — the women of Barlowe Road and Bear Creek Ridge, at the end of the Oregon Trail, decided the rivalry between their towns had gone on long enough. They planned a ladies softball game and picnic, and the men from both towns showed up and made friends. Over the years, the games continued, and eventually, it became traditional for the 6th-grade girls’ teams to play against each other. It was the only game they played, and they could only be on the team for one year. For the nine girls on each of the teams, it was the most important year of their lives.
Achieving a powerful swing is difficult, so having the best equipment is imperative. To start, grab shock resistant batting gloves and the appropriate bat. The correct bat length is figured out by balancing the bat the top of the barrel. When balanced on the floor, the knob of the bat should graze the bottom of the groin. Each league has different bat regulations based on the bat’s composition. In a wood bat league, the best type of wood is maple because it is more dense, resulting in less flexibility, and more strength than ash. The less flex a bat has the more power the batter can generate because the change in velocity, known as inertia, will be greater resulting in a more powerful impact. In a metal bat league the best choice is a one part composite bat because, like a
The mlb has great hitters that can hit a homerun but why do they use wooden bats and not metal ones or at least a compound.I was thinking the used it because the bat weighed more so it would be harder to hit the ball.Aluminium bats are lighter than the wooden bats.Another reason why the mlb is using the wooden bats is because the people are just waiting for the ball to be pitched to them so they can hit the ball out of the park with the wooden bat.
Last May the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees where tied 6-6 in the seventh inning. Christian Vasquez, who was known more as defensive player, and not a hitter. The pitcher throws the ball and Christian swings. It's a home run. His hit won the game. He was the hero of the day to his teammates, and his fans.
The purpose of Tim Rogers’ essay is to inform the reader about an infestation problem a small village in Nicaragua is dealing with. Rogers opens his essay with an incident that happened to a family, overnight, in the small village. The villagers quickly identify the source of the bite and what caused the bite. After recalling an earlier problem with vampire bats Rogers explains, due to the decrease in animal
There is a debate between scientists whether vampire bats should be killed or not. Firstly, ranchers, believe that vampire bats should be killed. For example, Chris Kraul a writer for the Los Angeles Times, shares that bats are feasting and killing off the cattle. Thus, this point proves that bats should be killed(Kraul). Secondly, Researchers believe that bats should be saved. For instance, Kraul reports that the theory for all of the attacks on the livestock are cause by timber cutting so the bats are losing food rich forests so they head toward the cattle for food. Therefore, this confirms that it is our fault for the bats attacking the livestock. Thirdly, I believe that bats should not be killed. To illustrate, Kraul tells bat based research
Draculin is a protein found in the saliva of vampire bats. Vampire bats drink blood to sustain themselves. The vampire bats contrary to popular beliefs do not suck the blood from their prey. They let the prey to bleed and lap up the gushing blood.
Often they will even make arrangements with blood bank owners so that some supply will be left out. Friendlier vampires can be extremely helpful, too. They are not picky about blood. They can survive drinking any type of blood, though they certainly prefer human blood when they can get in. Because of this, vampires will often make deals with the local blood bank owners or with prominent city figures to help control the population. When they drink the blood of an animal, the animal does not become a vampire animal, despite what many people believe. The animal simply
This paper explores a regional issue of White-Nose Syndrome in bats throughout Missouri. Left untreated this fungus could cause several endangered bat species to become extinct. There are several new experiments to see if we can control the spread of White-Nose Syndrome including exposing bats to a bacterium, creating man made hibernation stations or other changes within the bats makeup. The best results we have seen so far must go back to the preservation of a banana. This bacterium may be the best way to preserve our current way of life without hopefully changing to world around us greatly as well.
I can distinctly remember myself as a young child walking outside at dusk and looking up into the sky seeing a recurring black cloud floating above, swooping and diving like a synchronized ballet above me. Now, sixteen or so odd years later when I visit my parents country home in North Georgia, I no longer see the performance dancing above me. This is a sad reminder of a much bigger issue. The issue I am referring to is the huge decline in the eastern bat population due to WNS or White Nose Syndrome.
The United States Air Force is the organization that I was a part of for many years and I have the best understanding of. The Air Force has been much more selective throughout the last few years as to who they will let enlist. Before you begin the process on enlisting, an individual must be between 17 and 39 years of age, be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident and have a high school diploma or GED with at least 15 college credits. After meeting the first few requirements, you must take the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test, which covers four areas critical to the Air Force mission: arithmetic reasoning, work knowledge, paragraph comprehension and mathematics knowledge. This test helps determine whether you have the mental aptitude to withstand the demands of the Air Force and identifies your strengths to determine the careers best suited for your future success. Once you have taken the ASVAB, your recruiter will make an appointment for you at a nearby Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) to assess your physical and moral standards as set by the Air Force, the Department of Defense and federal law.
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.
In today’s society there is a greater than usual detachment from reality. With all the movies and T.V. shows featuring vampires, and how glamorous and wonderful it would be to be one with not a care in the world, and all the wealth you could ever want. Vampire stories have been around since the dawn of man and will continue until the end of mankind and they will continue across the millennium of time, but not in fact based reality
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” is American philosopher, Thomas Nagel’s, opinion on the widely debated mind-body problem. Nagel introduces the paper by explaining what it means for something to be conscious. He defines consciousness as an organism’s ability for there to be something it is like to be that organism. Using his definition of consciousness Nagel suggests that physicalism cannot be successfully defended using the popular reductionism theory. This is because in order to be defended a physical account must be given to phenomenological features themselves. This leads Nagel to his argument, “Every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will
Vampires have fell under a certain stereotype ever since the early nineteenth Century, and even up until today. Movies, novels and people in general have depicted vampires as bloodsucking demons who turn into bats, and I am sure everyone is familiar with any vampires need to seduce women almost daily. Vampires are said to be " an alien nocturnal species," as Nina Auerbach's book-"Our vampires, ourselves" states; but all vampires are not the coffin lying, shadow loitering monsters that the media perceives them to be. First of all, vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman, " they are simply more alive than they should be." What does this statement infer? Does this perception imply that vampires are actually ghosts? No,