How to Use fruit bat in a Sentence

fruit bat

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• The men in the village often hunted larger fruit bats with roughly foot-long wingspans, called little collared fruit bats—one of only three bat species thought to carry the Ebola virus.
  — Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
• In a 2016 study of Egyptian fruit bats, researchers recorded the bats for months and used a voice recognition program to analyze thousands of different sounds.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• African fruit bats are the reservoir hosts of the virus, the CDC said.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• That’s what brought Rodrigues fruit bats to the Safari Park.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The list includes birds, mussels, a fruit bat, a fish, and a flower.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• The greater short-nosed fruit bat can be found in the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia.
  — Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2015
• Things can get pretty loud ​ in Egyptian fruit bat colonies.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
• But Rodrigues fruit bats are small, about 14 inches long as adults.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Richard Dolbeer was once the man to call if millions of blackbirds or fruit bats were ravaging your fields.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Indian flying fox, one of more than 1,100 species of bats, is also known as the giant fruit bat.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2014
• It was already known that the reptiles hang from the ceiling at the cave entrance and catch Jamaican fruit bats that roost inside.
  — National Geographic, 3 June 2017
• People have also been told to avoid abandoned wells, as fruit bats eat dates from palm trees, and sometimes nest in wells.
  — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 28 May 2018
• During the 2018 Nipah outbreak, fruit bats from the same area tested positive for the virus.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The researchers captured Egyptian fruit bat mothers and pups from a cave just outside Tel Aviv.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• The tour begins with the butterflies, migrates to fruit bats and from there to see exotic birds and their trainers.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Samoan fruit bats are native to the National Park of American Samoa.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020
• Outbreaks of Marburg are thought to be sparked when the virus jumps to humans from animals, likely fruit bats.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023
• Back in 2011, elephants enjoyed their Halloween treats, as did the fruit bats, who munched on the pumpkins while hanging upside down.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• But no direct test had ever been performed in a highly social setting, such as in a fruit bat colony.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• It was first identified in pigs in Malaysia and Singapore in the late 1980s, though its natural reservoir is fruit bats.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
• It was first identified in pigs in Malaysia and Singapore in the late 1980s, though its natural reservoir is fruit bats.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Nov. 2023
• In 1967 scientists became ill after working with African green monkey tissue; the African fruit bat is the host.
  — Alberto Lucas LÓpez, National Geographic, 17 June 2021
• With previous outbreaks, fruit bats have been identified as the hosts of the Marburg virus, from which the virus is then transmitted to people.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The virus is spread to humans who have direct contact with animals that are infected, like fruit bats or pigs.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 22 May 2018
• The virus, rarely detected in humans, is endemic among the African region’s jumbo-sized fruit bats.
  — David Willman and Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The hunters were looking for roosting bats, mainly fruit bats and flying foxes—for them, a lucrative prize that can be shipped to villages in the north as part of the bushmeat trade.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
• In fact, a recent study of bat ear bones suggests that fruit bats never had the ability to echolocate, which would be a vote in favor of the flight-first theory.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• The animal host of Ebola is widely believed to be the fruit bat, although scientists haven’t been able to confirm this.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 11 May 2018
• As early as 2005, Nature published a piece suggesting fruit bats could act as reservoirs for the deadly virus.
  — Merlin Tuttle, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• The Marburg virus, which originates in fruit bats, was first detected in 1967 among people who had been exposed to African green monkeys.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024