. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. so THE WING-HANDED ANIMALS. as in a cloak. One may find hundreds of them in hollow trees. They sometimes fly about during the dav in gloomy virgin forests, although activity prop- erly begins for them at dusk. Their keen vision and excellent scent direct them to trees possessing particularly juicy and ripe fruit; they come to it singly at first, but presently the swarm collects in large numbers and soon divests a tree of all its fruit. They often m
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. so THE WING-HANDED ANIMALS. as in a cloak. One may find hundreds of them in hollow trees. They sometimes fly about during the dav in gloomy virgin forests, although activity prop- erly begins for them at dusk. Their keen vision and excellent scent direct them to trees possessing particularly juicy and ripe fruit; they come to it singly at first, but presently the swarm collects in large numbers and soon divests a tree of all its fruit. They often make raids upon vineyards, where they do great damage. They eat only the sweet, ripe fruit, leaving what is less developed for the other fruit- eating animals. Sometimes they undertake migra- tions, flying from one island to another. They suck the fruit dry, rather than eat it ; for they spit out the dry pulp. When they make a raid on an orchard they eat all through the night, making a noise that. L0NG-E\RED BAT. present! these creatures, which are the common English Bat, althoug I pe and parts l Asia, in their favorite haunt, a great barn, and the mighty ears are strongly brought out in the Dying and the crouching examples. These ears are nearly as long as the entire body. The manner hown In the third animal, whose ears project far below the body although the head is well drawn up. .â 'in.) may be heard at a considerable distance. The re- port of a gun does not disturb them, further than 'lines to cause them to flutter to an adjoining lure they resume their interrupted meal. deal, even when suspended, motionless, from the trees. The voice has a pecu- liii i real.}' or shrieking sound and sometimes they hiss In The female gives birth to one or two young ones at a time, at intervals of a year. The infants attach themselves to their mother's breast, and she carries them about with her, bestowing upon them her ten- derest care. In captivity these Bats may be tamed and will ther>
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