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Definition of ghost bat in English: ghost batnoun 1Any of a number of bats with mainly white or grey fur. Example sentencesExamples - African and Asian false vampires and Australian ghost bats, the largest of the Microchiroptera, likewise devour frogs, birds, and small mammals, including other species of bats.
- Northern ghost bats like to stay in humid habitats such as tropical and riparian rainforests.
- He mentions a case where some catholic missionaries were kept awake by night by ghost bats who used the church entrance for eating.
- Using echolocation, ghost bats hunt for large insects, lizards, frogs, birds and even other bats.
- The average head and body measurement of a ghost bat is 100 mm, each forearm also measures an average of 100 mm.
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see white bat Example sentencesExamples - Adult and juvenile ghost bats forage independently, coming and going from their roosts as they please.
- The ghost bats have translucent-looking creamy-coloured wings, so in flight they do look ghostly indeed.
- Have students identify the two other types of bats mentioned in this segment - bentwing and ghost bats.
- More than half - 78 species - were bats, including ghost bats, fishing bats, giant false vampire bats, mammal- and bird-feeding vampire bats, nectar-feeding bats, fruit bats, sucker-winged bats, and free-tailed bats.
- Some of these bats such as the ghost bats, capture their meals while flying high in the open air.
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another term for false vampire Example sentencesExamples - One can therefore argue safely that visual specialisations that were found to be absent from ghost bats are unlikely to turn up in Amorphochilus, Furipterus or some other rare, non-visual microbat.
- The study looked at the social and reproductive behaviour of the ghost bats, as well as their hunting and feeding behaviour.
- It has to be a pretty small carnivore and there have to be many of them since the floor is thickly covered with droppings, so ghost bats would have made sense.
- If a sound comes back the ghost bat swoops down and raps its wings around its pray and bites it to kill it.
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