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71 relations: Adam's apple, Animal, Animal echolocation, Antrozoini, Bat, Bulldog bat, Carnivore, Cartilage, Chordate, Cricothyroid muscle, Egyptian fruit bat, Evening bat, Fibrous joint, Fish, Free-tailed bat, Frugivore, Furipteridae, George Edward Dobson, Ghost-faced bat, Hematophagy, Hertz, Horseshoe bat, Human, Hyoid apparatus, Hypertrophy, Infrasound, Insectivore, Kitti's hog-nosed bat, Language, Larynx, Leaf-nosed bat, Lung, Mammal, Megabat, Megadermatidae, Middle ear, Mormoopidae, Mormoops, Moth, Mouse-tailed bat, Mystacinidae, Myzopoda, Nasal cavity, Natalidae, Nectarivore, Neuron, Nycteridae, Pallid bat, Paraphyly, Phonation, ..., Respiratory system, Sac-winged bat, Skull, Smoky bat, Song, Spectral bat, Tetrapod, Thyroid cartilage, Thyropteridae, Townsend's big-eared bat, Trachea, Tragus (ear), Tympanic part of the temporal bone, Ultrasound, Vampire bat, Vesper bat, Vocal folds, Vocal tract, Wavelength, Yangochiroptera, Yinpterochiroptera. Expand index (21 more) »
Adam's apple
The Adam's apple, or laryngeal prominence, is a feature of the human neck, and is the lump or protrusion that is formed by the angle of the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx seen especially in males.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals.
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Antrozoini
Antrozoini is a tribe of bats in the subfamily Vespertilioninae of the family Vespertilionidae.
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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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Bulldog bat
The bat family Noctilionidae, commonly known as bulldog bats or fishing bats, is represented by two species, the greater and the lesser bulldog bats.
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Carnivore
A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.
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Cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components.
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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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Cricothyroid muscle
The cricothyroid muscle is the only tensor muscle of the larynx aiding with phonation.
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Egyptian fruit bat
The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is a species of Old World fruit bat.
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Evening bat
The evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis) is a species of bat in the vesper bat family that is native to North America.
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Fibrous joint
Fibrous joints are connected by dense connective tissue, consisting mainly of collagen.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Free-tailed bat
The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.
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Frugivore
A frugivore is a fruit eater.
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Furipteridae
Furipteridae is one of the families of bats.
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George Edward Dobson
George Edward Dobson FRS (4 September 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland – 26 November 1895) was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.
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Ghost-faced bat
The ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla) is a bat in the genus Mormoops.
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Hematophagy
Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φάγειν phagein "to eat").
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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Horseshoe bat
Horseshoe bats make up the bat family Rhinolophidae.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Hyoid apparatus
The hyoid apparatus is the collective term used in veterinary anatomy for the bones which suspend the tongue and larynx.
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Hypertrophy
Hypertrophy (from Greek ὑπέρ "excess" + τροφή "nourishment") is the increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells.
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Infrasound
Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low-frequency sound, is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz or cycles per second, the "normal" limit of human hearing.
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Insectivore
robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects.
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Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a vulnerable species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae.
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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
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Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.
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Leaf-nosed bat
The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are found from southern North America to South America, specifically from Mexico to northern Argentina.
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Lung
The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and many other animals including a few fish and some snails.
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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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Megabat
Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, and its only family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).
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Megadermatidae
Megadermatidae, or false vampire bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia.
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Middle ear
The middle ear is the portion of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the inner ear.
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Mormoopidae
The family Mormoopidae contains bats known generally as mustached bats, ghost-faced bats, and naked-backed bats.
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Mormoops
Mormoops is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae.
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Moth
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.
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Mouse-tailed bat
Mouse-tailed bats are a group of insectivorous bats of the family Rhinopomatidae with only three to six species, all contained in the single genus Rhinopoma.
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Mystacinidae
Mystacinidae is a family of unusual bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bats.
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Myzopoda
Myzopoda, which has two described species, is the only genus in the bat family Myzopodidae.
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Nasal cavity
The nasal cavity (nasal fossa, or nasal passage) is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
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Natalidae
The family Natalidae, or funnel-eared bats, are found from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
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Nectarivore
In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.
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Neuron
A neuron, also known as a neurone (British spelling) and nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell that receives, processes, and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.
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Nycteridae
The Nycteridae comprise a family of bats commonly called slit-faced or hollow-faced bats.
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Pallid bat
The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of bat that ranges from western Canada to central Mexico.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Phonation
The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics.
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Respiratory system
The respiratory system (also respiratory apparatus, ventilatory system) is a biological system consisting of specific organs and structures used for gas exchange in animals and plants.
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Sac-winged bat
The 51 species of sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats constitute the family Emballonuridae, and can be found in tropical and subtropical regions all over the world.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Smoky bat
The smoky bat (Amorphochilus schnablii) is a species of bat in the family Furipteridae.
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Song
A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
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Spectral bat
The genus Vampyrum contains only one species, the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum).
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Tetrapod
The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.
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Thyroid cartilage
The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the nine cartilages that make up the laryngeal skeleton, the cartilage structure in and around the trachea that contains the larynx.
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Thyropteridae
Disc-winged bats are a small group of bats of the family Thyropteridae.
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Townsend's big-eared bat
Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) is a species of vesper bat.
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Trachea
The trachea, colloquially called the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all air-breathing animals with lungs.
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Tragus (ear)
The tragus is a small pointed eminence of the external ear, situated in front of the concha, and projecting backward over the meatus.
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Tympanic part of the temporal bone
The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process, and surrounding the external part of the ear canal.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing.
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Vampire bat
Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy.
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Vesper bat
Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae), also known as evening bats or common bats, are the largest and most-studied family of bats.
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Vocal folds
The vocal folds, also known commonly as vocal cords or voice reeds, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally, from back to front, across the larynx.
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Vocal tract
The vocal tract is the cavity in human beings and in animals where the sound produced at the sound source (larynx in mammals; syrinx in birds) is filtered.
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Wavelength
In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
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Yangochiroptera
The Yangochiroptera, or Vespertilioniformes, is a proposed suborder of Chiroptera that includes most of the microbat families, except the Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae and the Megadermatidae.
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Yinpterochiroptera
The Yinpterochiroptera, or Pteropodiformes, is a suborder of the Chiroptera, which includes taxa formerly known as megabats and five of the microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, and Megadermatidae.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbat
