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Word: chiroptera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nectar from flowers. The bulldog bat of Central and South America catches fish in its claws, an act Miss Leen has caught in a series of strobe-light photographs. Most bats, however, feed on insects. And "most" adds up to quite a few billions. In addition, the order Chiroptera (Greek for hand-wing) contains the second largest number of species among mammals. First are the rodents, to whom bats bear only a remote taxonomical resemblance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Belfry | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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