News tagged with flying fox
Crowdfunding science: Student raises cash online to follow a flying fox
The flying fox is an adorable doe-eyed bat with a dark side – it is the perfect vector for emerging infectious diseases from Asia. Susan Tsang, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology at The City College of ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Study: Animals populated Madagascar by rafting there
How did the lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses get to the large, isolated island of Madagascar sometime after 65 million years ago?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Bats without borders: World's largest bats need international protection
Without at least a temporary reprieve from hunting, the world's largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the "large flying fox", could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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