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	Bats Scientific classification Scientific classification ...
		Bats are usually grouped with the tree shrews (Scandentia Scandentia), colugos (Dermoptera Dermoptera), and the primate primates in superorder Archonta Archonta.
		Bats are closely associated with vampire vampires, who are said to be able to shapeshift shapeshift into bats, fog fog or wolves wolves.
		Chinese Chinese lore claims the bat is a symbol of longevity and happiness, and is similarly lucky in Poland Poland and geographical Macedonia Macedonia and among the Kwakiutl Kwakiutl and Arab Arabs.
	www.biodatabase.de /bat (1504 words)

	Bats
		The diversity of leaf-nosed bats increases with proximity to the equator.
		Vesper bats are also among the most colorful bats, with fur that ranges from solid reds, browns, yellows, and grays to multicolored, spotted and painted.
		Most vesper bats are found throughout the Sonoran Desert, although the Yuma myotis, the cave myotis and the Townsend’s big-eared bat are not found in the westernmost, driest parts of the desert.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/nhsd_bats.html (4786 words)

	BioKIDS - Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species, Critter Catalog, Vespertilionidae, vesper bats
		Although vesper bats are found throughout temperate and tropical regions, vesper bats are the only kinds of bats that are found in colder, temperate areas, such as northern North America.
		Vesper bats that are found in temperate regions either migrate to more hospitable wintering areas where they can find food or hibernate.
		Vesper bats are found in many kinds of habitats, from deserts to cold temperate forests.
	www.biokids.umich.edu /critters/Vespertilionidae (254 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Tuttle, Texas Bats
		In truth, bats are more closely related to people than to mice, they generally have excellent eyesight, and they are far too clever to entangle themselves in anyone's hair.
		Bats are found everywhere except in the most extreme desert and polar regions, although most live in tropical forests, where they feed on fruit, nectar, pollen, and insects.
		Texas bats feed exclusively on insects, except for pallid bats that also prey on scorpions and centipedes, and long-nosed and long-tongued bats that eat nectar and pollen.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/extuttep.html (652 words)

	Irish Mammals--:Bat
		Bats are mammals, this means they have a covering of fur or hair on their body and give birth to live babies which they suckle until they are old enough to look fter themselves.
		Ireland largest bat is the Leisler’s bat and the Pipisterelle bat is the smallest.
		Bats live during the winter in rock formations such as caves and cellars and undergo very strange body changes to enable them to survive without feeding for several months.
	homepage.eircom.net /~edrice/mammals/bat.htm (536 words)

	Man fit for trial in attempted murder of officer - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Vesper is also charged with stealing the van a day earlier and robbing a University of Hawai'i student of his moped and hitting the victim with a baseball bat earlier on Dec. 2.
		Vesper was evaluated by the mental-health experts at the request of his defense lawyer, Jeffrey Hawk.
		The panel also concluded that Vesper was legally sane at the time of the crimes — that he had the capacity to know right from wrong and to conform his conduct in accordance with the law.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/May/24/ln/ln14p.html (337 words)

	Vesper charged with eight felonies - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Vesper's statements shows he's a danger, Van Marter said, when he asked for higher-than-usual bail of $1.1 million on O'ahu grand jury indictments yesterday charging Vesper with with eight felonies, including possession of crystal methamphetamine.
		Vesper was also indicted on auto theft and criminal property damage charges stemming from incidents while trying to flee from a private parking lot on Robello Lane in Kalihi Nov. 20.
		Vesper was indicted on charges of robbing the student of the moped and the newspaper carrier of her van and possessing ice and drug paraphernalia.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Dec/09/ln/ln34p.html (662 words)

	FATHOM: Slideshow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Natterer's bat, Myotis nattereri, is a vesper bat and shows the unadorned face typical of this group.
		The Vesper family is the biggest and most widespread of all the bat families, with its 300 or so species ranging from the heat of the tropics to the cold winters of the temperate zones.
		They are found high up in mountains where vegetation begins to become scarce, as well as low down in tropical rain forests; they are in deserts and cities, in woodland and farmland on islands and inland--in fact they are everywhere except the coldest regions in high latitudes.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701775/five.htm (109 words)

	Radar's Bat Education - FAQ's
		Plus a bat sneaks up on it's prey and if it did bite you it would probably be one of your toes if your barefoot being that is the part on the ground and easy for the bat to sneak up on you and get your blood.
		Because bats are social animals and live in large clusters in a roost you see a bunch at one time when they leave their roost at sunset.
		Bats are exceptionally vulnerable to extinction, in part because they are the slowest reproducing mammals on earth for their size, most producing only one young annually.
	www.geocities.com /radar_foxbat/Bat_FAQs.htm (5508 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Vespers by Jeff Rovin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A vesper is a vespertilionid — a common bat breed.
		The "bat lady" has withdrawn into herself and the comforting past of her Grandma Joycewicz' ancient Bronx apartment.
		The two become intellectual colleagues and jointly arrive at an answer to the bizarre bat behavior that is plaguing New York.
	www.themysteryreader.com /rovin-vespers.html (426 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2004/12/09/
		Vesper was indicted yesterday by an Oahu grand jury with first-degree attempted murder, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, first- and second-degree robbery, and auto theft stemming from three separate incidents last Thursday.
		When Vesper's car struck the gate, it caused Tang, who was standing next to the gate, to fall because she was trying to get out of his way, police said.
		Vesper is being held in lieu of $1 million bail in last Thursday's cases and $100,000 in the Nov. 20 cases.
	starbulletin.com /2004/12/09/news/story8.html (523 words)

	Vesper bat
		Almost all Vesper bats are insect-eaters, exeptions being some Myotis and Pizonyx that catch fish and the larger Nyctalus species that have been known on occasion to catch small Passerine birds in flight.
		They rely mainly on echolocation, but they lack the enlarged noses, which some microbats have in order to improve the ultrasound beam and instead "shout" through their open mouths to project their ultrasound beam.
		As a group, Vesper bats cover the full gamut of flight ability with the relatively weak flying Pipistrellus that have fluttery, almost insect-like flight to the long winged and fast flying genera such as Lasiurus, Nyctalus and Miniopteris.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/v/ve/vesper_bat.html (262 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Education
		Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight and most fly and hunt between dusk and dawn.
		There are a dozen vesper bats including the noctule, a large and powerful flyer, and the Bechstein's bat, one of Britain's rarest mammals.
		As a result the greater horseshoe bat, once distributed across southern England, is now very rare, while sightings of the elusive Bechstein's and barbastelle bats are uncommon and sadly the mouse-eared bat was officially declared extinct in Britain in 1992.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /ksheets/batswp.html (1016 words)

	Bat Phobia - Are your fears of bats unwarrented? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is similar to common sonar, in which a sound is emitted by the bat and bounces off insects or objects and returns to the bat's ears.
		Roof-roosting bats can sometimes be a nuisance in terms of noise at night, the unpleasant odour of the guano and, in some cases, the bats themselves.
		Where bat houses in a residential area are suitable and adequate for the species in the area, bats would use them rather than roosting in buildings.
	www.batsgauteng.org.za /BatPhobia.htm (1593 words)

	Herefordshire Bat Group
		Bats have the largest surface area to volume ratio of any of the world's mammals, the variety of wing shapes allowing different habitats and prey sources to be exploited.
		The long-eared bats feed on insects found within vegetation, such as moths whilst noctules feed on large insects, such as cockchafers (maybugs), that can be found in the open air.
		Bats are born pink, hairless and blind as are many small mammals; their ears are also closed.
	www.rebecca.collins.care4free.net /species.htm (2510 words)

	Bats
		This is a small family of bats having "flaps and folds of flesh around their mouths, often set off by large, obvious hairs or whiskers" (Tyburec, p.
		The largest family of bats, these are mainly insectivores (though some have evolved long feet and sharp claws used to catch fish from ponds), and have plain faces without flaps or folds.
		Bats of this family have "a thick tail that protrudes freely from the tail membrane for at least 1/3 of its length" and "long, narrow wings and forward-projecting ears" (Tyburec, p.
	www.saguaro-juniper.com /i_and_i/mammals/bats/bats.html (1140 words)

	Sequential Tart: Bruce Wayne: Murderer (vol V/iss 4/April 2002)
		Oracle originally thought that Vesper had discovered Bruce is Batman before she was killed but this has been proven false, so the fact remains Vesper was brought back specifically to be murdered and she was written as the lame plot device she was.
		Vesper was shot four times in the back and three more bullets went into the floor.
		Evidence against Bruce includes Vesper's supposed 911 call to police saying 'he' was coming to get her and the lack of an alibi (Bruce was out as Batman with Sasha in tow).
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/apr02/art_0402_5.shtml (1951 words)

	starbulletin.com \| News \| /2006/03/29/
		Circuit Judge Virginia Crandall handed Vesper, 45, the state's harshest penalty of life without parole yesterday, noting that he attempted to "engage in conduct that was known to cause the death of a police officer and it is warranted under the circumstances."
		She also ordered Vesper to serve 20-year and 10-year terms for first and second-degree robbery to run at the same time as the life sentence.
		Vesper was found guilty of first-degree attempted murder following a jury trial in October.
	starbulletin.com /2006/03/29/news/story08.html (821 words)

	Moped Riders Association :: View topic - Crazy moped thief nearly kills cop!
		In a case that underscores the dangers facing police officers, Vesper, 45, was sentenced to the mandatory life term by Circuit Judge Virginia Crandall for running over Omai in the parking lot at Honolulu Community College on Dec. 2, 2004.
		Crandall also sentenced Vesper to prison terms for crimes that include robbery, unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, criminal property damage and possession of a crystal methamphetamine pipe.
		Vesper pleaded guilty to the other offenses that included stealing a van from a newspaper carrier, robbing a student of a moped and hitting the victim with a bat.
	www.mopedriders.org /viewtopic.php?t=5545 (601 words)

	BRITISH BATS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are 19 families of bats throughout the world but only 2 families are represented in Britain, the Vesper bats and the Horseshoe bats.
		The rapid decline of horseshoe bats is not fully understood, though certainly many large nursery colonies have been destroyed, accidentally and deliberately.
		Once known as the water bat, this medium-sized bat is found in most parts of Britain.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kimthomas/hmbgsite/britishbats.htm (520 words)

	Welcome to the Vesper Club
		Business dinner or family party, the Vesper Club has the facilities, staff and experience to make it happen for you.
		Convenient Center City location makes the Vesper Club the ideal spot for any event: wedding, wedding reception, bar/bat mitzvah, confirmation, reunion, anniversary celebration, birthday, shower, rehearsal dinner, theme party, retirement dinner or corporate meeting/banquet.
		Convenient protected parking at a discount is another Vesper Club "plus" for you or your party guests.
	www.vesperclub.com (211 words)

	Welcome to Bat Conservation International
		The spotted bat is one of America's most striking mammals.
		Initially thought to be extremely rare, the spotted bat is now known to occupy a rather large range throughout central western North America from southern British Columbia to northern Mexico.
		It is one of the few bats that uses echolocation frequencies low enough to be audible to humans.
	www.batcon.org /SPProfiles/index.asp?articleID=97 (325 words)

	Batman #605 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bruce Wayne: Fugitive we watched Bruce Wayne escape from jail and go into hiding, and witnessed the efforts of Batman's allies as they dug through the clues, racing to discover the evidence that would prove Bruce/Batman hadn't committed the horrible crime of which he was accused.
		He broke the security systems in the Batcave and entered repeatedly over a period of several months, changing records in the cave's computers and in Vesper Fairchild's laptop to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of Bruce's companions when the murder was finally committed.
		And he brutally murdered Vesper in the halls of Wayne Manor in an effort to not only frame and destroy Bruce Wayne, but to strip away Wayne's entire life to make a point -- to prove to Bruce / Batman that he was just as much of a monster inside as Cain was.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Aug02/batman605.htm (902 words)

	Amazon.com: Bats: Biology and Behavior: Books: John Altringham,Tom McOwat,Lucy Hammond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bats are arguably the most diverse of all animals, comprising as much as one quarter of mammals.
		This book covers all the bats and their natural history, with a unique emphasis on how their lives exemplify processes and principles of broad biological relevance.
		Bats are currently placed in a single order, the Chiroptera.
	www.amazon.com /Bats-Biology-Behavior-John-Altringham/dp/0198540752 (1161 words)

	NPC Journal 3(2), 1979: "Link Pot Journal", Vesper Pot
		Re-entering the hole we found a bat squeaking in the mud on the floor, its nervous system being obviously unable to cope with its hibernation being interrupted by chemical means.
		As that sounded rather similar to a well-known pot on Leck Fell and evening in Latin is vesper, we decided to call the hole Vesper Pot as an epitaph.
		Still it was the only exchange trip on this side of the valley and we had only found it by accident.
	www.pennine.demon.co.uk /NPC/1979/VESPER.HTM (1321 words)

	Amazon.com: Bats: Biology and Behaviour: Books: John Altringham,Tom McOwat,Lucy Hammond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		`A valuable addition to the bat library of enthusiasts and professionals, this book gives up-to-date discussions on the special features of bats world-wide and their place in a modern biological context...
		In addition to providing a useful account of the biology of the world's bats, the author has used bats to demonstrate how basic biological processes also shape the rest of our natural world.
		The wealth of unanswered questions about bats emerges from the book, making it easy for student readers to see and appreciate the opportunities that bats present to a variety of biologists.
	www.amazon.com /Bats-Biology-Behaviour-John-Altringham/dp/0198503229 (1769 words)

	Comics You Should Own #6 - Batman #515-552 » PopCultureShock
		Early in the run he introduced Madolyn Corbett, a mysterious femme fatale who showed up a few times and then disappeared (and whose fate was decided in an issue of Shadow of the Bat, which I didn't read, so I don't know what happened to her).
		Yes, I agree that Vesper was given the short end of the stick.
		That is to say, I was always interested in the Silver St. Clouds, Ariana Dzerchenkos, Vesper Fairchilds, and Bridget Clancys that populated the Bat-books.
	www.popcultureshock.com /features.php?id=1183 (5742 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Debi draws on her bat mates for inspiration
		Fortunately for her, while many people might have been rather upset about the presence of a bat in their home, Debi was able to use it as inspiration.
		And while it has been influenced by the bats which took up residence with her, it is a more direct follow-on from one of the better known creatures in her best-selling Pure Dead.
		The book has been inspired by Vesper, the bat which teaches Damp to fly in the second-last Strega-Borgias novel Deep Water, which is released in paperback next month.
	news.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1020612006 (1311 words)

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