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Long-tongued nectar bat

Index Long-tongued nectar bat

The long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), also known as the northern blossom bat, honey nectar bat, least blossom-bat, dagger-toothed long-nosed fruit bat, and lesser long-tongued fruit bat, is a species of megabat. [1]

45 relations: Animal, Australia, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Bako National Park, Banana, Bat, Bignoniaceae, Bombacaceae, Borneo, Brunei, Chordate, Dipterocarpaceae, Estrous cycle, Fabaceae, Gestation, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Java, Kalimantan, Kota Kinabalu, Lactation, Long-tongued fruit bat, Macroglossinae (Chiroptera), Macroglossus, Mammal, Mangrove, Megabat, Montane ecosystems, Musaceae, Myrtaceae, Nectar, Negros Island, New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Pollen, Pollinator, Sabah, Sarawak, Seasonal breeder, Solomon Islands, Sonneratiaceae, Tawau, Testicle, Thailand.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".

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Bako National Park

Bako National Park is a national park in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Bignoniaceae

Bignoniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales commonly known as the bignonias.

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Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae were long recognised as a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Dipterocarpaceae

Dipterocarpaceae are a family of 16 genera and approximately 695 known species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees.

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Estrous cycle

The estrous cycle or oestrus cycle (derived from Latin oestrus 'frenzy', originally from Greek οἶστρος oîstros 'gadfly') is the recurring physiological changes that are induced by reproductive hormones in most mammalian therian females.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Gestation

Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside viviparous animals.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

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Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu (Jawi), formerly known as Jesselton, is the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia and the capital of the Kota Kinabalu District.

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Lactation

Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young.

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Long-tongued fruit bat

The long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus sobrinus) is a species of megabat.

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Macroglossinae (Chiroptera)

The megabat subfamily Macroglossinae is a small group comprising only four genera.

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Macroglossus

Macroglossus is a genus of megabats (family Pteropodidae) found in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Megabat

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, and its only family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Musaceae

Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with ca 91 known species, placed in the order Zingiberales.

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Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae or the myrtle family is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales.

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Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

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Negros Island

Negros is the fourth largest island of the Philippines, with a land area of.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Peninsular Malaysia

Peninsular Malaysia also known as Malaya or West Malaysia, is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula and surrounding islands.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).

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Pollinator

A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.

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Sabah

Sabah is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo Island.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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Seasonal breeder

Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of.

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Sonneratiaceae

Sonneratiaceae were a family of flowering plants placed in the order Myrtales by the Cronquist system.

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Tawau

Tawau (Jawi) formerly known as Tawao, is the capital of the Tawau District in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Testicle

The testicle or testis is the male reproductive gland in all animals, including humans.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tongued_nectar_bat

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