Taran+Research

The Nose Knows: Unlike Fruit-eating bats, the Vampire bats have a short, conical muzzle without a nose leaf. Instead they have naked pads with U-shaped grooves at the tip. The common vampire bat also has specialized infrared sensors on its nose. A nucleus has been found in the brain of vampire bats that has a similar position and has similar histology to the infrared nucleus of infrared sensitive snakes. Image of your bat? Define 'histology' for your readers please. Please introduce your study perhaps by adding a title page and a brief report - eg. A vampire bat is...has...lives...can.....

Because they often do not find host organisms for many hours and may have to fly a long distance to do so, vampire bats usually feed in enormous quantities. This influx of proteins may make the bat too heavy to fly. Accordingly, the bat's urinary system accommodates this by releasing dilute urine consisting of a lot of water and fewer solutes. However, when the bat is resting, a new problem is faced. The large amounts of protein create excess urea and must be disposed of. The urinary system of the vampire bat then uses various hormones to make concentrated urine -- consisting of more urea and less water. Solution?
 * Problem Pee:** The feeding pattern of the vampire bat adds a layer of complexity to its anatomy.

Did You Know that scientists can actually hear echolocation with a bat detector. A bat detector takes the ultra sonic sound of the bat, lowers the frequency, and allows us to hear the bats echolocation.

A predator cruises through the night skies in search of prey, sending out twenty or more sonar signals per second and listening for the faint echo of a target. Suddenly, picking up a return signal it veers for the target. Increasing both the speed and rapidity of the signals, it locks in on the target and adjusts its trajectory for the kill. But, the prey has developed a means of detecting the sonar and begins evasive maneuvers. The predator increases the signal rate to two hundred or more per second and dives for the target but at the last instant, in a surprise move, the prey folds its wings and drops out of sight. The predator swoops by, missing the target, foiled by the prey’s early detection sophisticated sonar capabilities, but maybe you didn't’t know that some insects have developed ears.

with such an amazing animal hollywood just can't resist a gimic such as a bat super hero action movie. for that is how you end up with​ __**// batman!!! //**__

__B Study - is this happening this week? Week 8?__ usually when you think "cheetah" do you think the truth is the cheetah is both
 * // __CHEETAH__ //**
 * 1) fastest animal on earth
 * 2) amazing animal

but really can you think of an animal that isn't? hopefully your answer is __//**NO**//__ because if your answer is yes you are wrong MWAHAHAHA

The Cheetah can run with 75 mph (115km/h) and all that speed wasn't given to them just for fun! media type="youtube" key="7iC-TSkAkwA" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="z-Le2m3Wi98" width="425" height="350" it was given to them for 3 reasons
 * 1) to hunt
 * 2) to save there families from danger
 * 3) to save themselves

King cheetah This picture is of a king cheetah showing its unique coat pattern

The king cheetah is a rare mutation of cheetah characterized by a distinct pelt pattern. It was first noted in Zimbabwe in 1926. this is just a picture of a mother and her 3 cubs

The cub on the left is likely to have come from her first litter (a teenager) the other two are likely to be from her first litter (kids) **DINGO ** media type="youtube" key="VsLcKCPSOtU" width="425" height="350" this is an alpine dingo 10 weeks old !!!!!!!!!! just a pup

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White dingo puppy ​

Scientific Name
Since its first naming in 1792 (//Canis antarcticus//) the scientific name of the dingo has changed a few times __.__ The name //Canis familiaris//, which treats the dingo as a subspecies of domestic dog (and the domestic dog as a species separate from wolves), has been the most frequently used term over the last 50 years.

= Eel = ==

The NZ longfin eel is the world's largest and longest living freshwater eel. they are often found big as 1.75 metres in length. the largest recorded ever caught weighed 24 kgs. They are a traditional food of Maori and are delicious or at least thats what the internet told me.

Q how long do eels live

A aproximately 100 years, a century!!!

QHow do electric eels generate a voltage and why do they not get shocked in the process?

A The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc-shaped, electricity-producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ. The nervous system does this through a command nucleus that decides when the electric organ will fire. When the command is given, a complex array of nerves makes sure that the thousands of cells activate at once, no matter how far they are from the command nucleus. Each electrogenic cell carries a negative charge of a little less than 100 millivolts on its outside compared to its inside. When the command signal arrives, the nerve terminal releases a minute puff of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. This creates a transient path with low electrical resistance connecting the inside and the outside of one side of the cell. Thus, each cell behaves like a battery with the activated side carrying a negative charge and the opposite side a positive one. Because the cells are oriented inside the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell "shocks" any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so. This practically simultaneous start-up creates a short-lived current flowing along the eel's body. If the eel lived in air, the current could be as high as one ampere, turning the creature's body into the equivalent of a 500-volt battery. But eels live in [|water], which provides additional outlets for the current. They thus generate a larger voltage, but a divided, and therefore diminished, current.


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