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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2016
Page
7
Summer evenings bring buzzing bats that eat large numbers of insects and help pollinate plants. They provide guano for fertilizer and products, inspire medical research, and aid blind navigation studies. There are about 1 300 species worldwide, with 46 in the United States, many roosting in caves and trees.
A word search style puzzle hides PUPS ROOST SALIVA SPECIES and WINGS in varied orientations including backward and diagonal. Some letters repeat or reuse, inviting readers to locate the five target bat related terms within the grid.
Bats are not blind and rely on echolocation to hunt and dodge objects. They emit high pitched sounds that bounce back to reveal shape, distance, and even whether an object is food or a threat. Wingspan ranges from six inches to six feet, with wings formed by a skin membrane between elongated fingers.
A listing of online bat conservation sites aps.gov cave batcon.org batconservation.org/learn/about-bats and library offerings with two titles Bats by Jennifer Zeiger and Brown Bats by Christina Leaf.
The piece frames a set of bat jokes with Becky, Ben and Belinda, then explains bats face habitat loss as forests vanish and caves are impacted by guano harvesters and tourism. It notes bats reproduce slowly and suggests looking for them in early evening and installing a bat house.
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