We have two Bats thus adorned in Britain, namely, the Greater and the Lesser Horseshoe Bats, but most of the leaf-nosed species are inhabitants of warmer regions, and it is there that they run out into the most remarkable eccentricities of structure. In Blainville's Bat, a small species inhabiting South America and the West Indies, these expansions of the skin of the face seem to have reached the utmost possible grotesqueness, but the membranous leaves are larger and the ears much more developed in many species allied to our own Horseshoe Bats, especially such as the Megaderms. We can hardly imagine that these great membranous expansions of the outer ears and the region of the nose can have any other purpose than that of enlarging the surface of highly sensitive skin specially adapted for the perception of external impressions, and it is a remarkable fact, strictly in accordance with this view, that, so far as we know, the Bats so endowed are more decidedly nocturnal in their habits and frequent darker retreats than their less gifted fellows.
Похожие новости:
I said to myself
Brilliantly coloured fighting polygamous
A little dent is
The explanation of the
Farmers in England are
It is still in
Illustration FIG 3 ULESANIS
The analogy of the
The natural position is
A Book of Natural History
Five and a half
The nest was suspended
It contains a minute
And as these slowly
They feed on the
It would be folly
When thus engaged the
Its pure white abdomen
The great Eastern Fruit
Somewhat different evidence however
The whole of the
It takes the wild
Of the Diptera or
I have no doubt
That they are exceedingly
The water ran down
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Artist
It appears that the
At the other end
To anyone who remembered
The surface of the
Illustration LONG EARED SUNFISH
I must now call
This part of the
Some of these attack
The vast subject which
The workers appear to
When holes were dug
Yet among the majority
I have seen a
The young larva in
This amount would be
Caterpillars and beetles belonging
Five of this form
Four and a half
With two exceptions our
Moreover in all these
It is a tradition
|