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47 relations: Americas, Animal bite, Animal echolocation, Anticoagulant, Artibeus, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Binomial nomenclature, Bird, Canine tooth, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chupacabra, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Cochlea, Desmoteplase, Estrous cycle, Fear of bats, Hairy-legged vampire bat, Hematophagy, Hormone, Infrared sensing in vampire bats, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Joseph Lennox Pawan, Leaf-nosed bat, Least-concern species, Livestock, Matrilineality, Megadermatidae, Mexico–United States border, Neontology, Oldfield Thomas, Pest (organism), Peuchen, Polygyny, Public Health Reports, Rabies, Saliva, Skull, Social grooming, Spectral bat, Stroke, Tapir, Tooth enamel, Trinidad, United States, United States Public Health Service, Vampire bat, White-winged vampire bat.
Americas
The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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Animal bite
An animal bite is a wound, usually a puncture or laceration, caused by the teeth.
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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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Anticoagulant
Anticoagulants, commonly referred to as blood thinners, are chemical substances that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time.
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Artibeus
The Neotropical fruit bats (Artibeus) are a genus of bats within the subfamily Stenodermatinae.
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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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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Canine tooth
In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or (in the case of those of the upper jaw) eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed teeth.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States.
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Chupacabra
The chupacabra or chupacabras (literally "goat-sucker"; from chupar, "to suck", and cabra, "goat") is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press covering research on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by infectious agents.
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Cochlea
The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing.
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Desmoteplase
Desmoteplase is a novel, highly fibrin-specific "clot-busting" (thrombolytic) drug in development that reached phase III clinical trials.
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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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Fear of bats
Fear of bats, sometimes called chiropterophobia (from the Greek χείρ - cheir, "hand" and πτερόν - pteron, "wing" referring to the order of the bats, and φόβος - phobos, meaning "fear"), is a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats.
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Hairy-legged vampire bat
The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats.
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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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Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle “ὁρμῶ”, "to set in motion, urge on") is any member of a class of signaling molecules produced by glands in multicellular organisms that are transported by the circulatory system to target distant organs to regulate physiology and behaviour.
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Infrared sensing in vampire bats
Vampire bats are the only known mammals whose entire nutrition relies on blood from mammals or birds.
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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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Joseph Lennox Pawan
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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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Least-concern species
A least concern (LC) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated but not qualified for any other category.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line.
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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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Mexico–United States border
The Mexico–United States border is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the west and Gulf of Mexico to the east.
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Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
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Oldfield Thomas
Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist.
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Pest (organism)
A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns including crops, livestock, and forestry.
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Peuchen
The Peuchen (also known as Piuchen, Pihuchen, Pihuychen, Pihuichen, Piguchen, or Piwuchen) is a creature from the Mapuche mythology and Chilote mythology pertaining to southern Chile, a much feared shapeshifting creature which could instantly change into animal form.
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Polygyny
Polygyny (from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from πολύ- poly- "many", and γυνή gyne "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women.
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Public Health Reports
Public Health Reports (or PHR) is a peer-reviewed public health journal established in 1878 and published by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health on behalf of the United States Public Health Service.
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Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.
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Saliva
Saliva is a watery substance formed in the mouths of animals, secreted by the salivary glands.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Social grooming
Social grooming is a behaviour in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's body or appearance.
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Spectral bat
The genus Vampyrum contains only one species, the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum).
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Stroke
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.
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Tapir
A tapir is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensile nose trunk.
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Tooth enamel
Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many other animals, including some species of fish.
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Public Health Service
The Public Health Service Act of 1944 structured the United States Public Health Service (PHS), founded in 1798, as the primary division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW; which was established in 1953), which later became the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 1979–1980 (when the Education agencies were separated into their own U.S. Department of Education).
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Vampire bat
Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy.
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White-winged vampire bat
The white-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi), a species of vampire bat, is the only member of the genus Diaemus.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_vampire_bat
