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    Re: Silly Questions? Sensible Answers!

    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    Any more bat related questions?[*]bats don't get tangled in your hair
    If they decide to land/pearch there, then they can - they can also think on a nose as a convenient perching place (First hand evidence on that one.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmjd View Post
    Because dolphins are air breathers and don't have gills so they can't extract oxygen from water like fish can. Sharks have gills and are thus belong to the fish family.
    So sharks have gills and sleep on the bottom of the ocean (it's true, I've seen it). So where do dolphins sleep? (there being no air at the bottom of the ocean in my experience.)

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    Re: Silly Questions? Sensible Answers!

    Quote Originally Posted by strobie View Post
    So sharks have gills and sleep on the bottom of the ocean (it's true, I've seen it). So where do dolphins sleep? (there being no air at the bottom of the ocean in my experience.)
    Well according to this link dolphins don't sleep as we do, they can switch sleep between the two hemispheres of their brain. So it's probably more like a state of sleep swimming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    If they decide to land/pearch there, then they can - they can also think on a nose as a convenient perching place (First hand evidence on that one.)
    Point taken, bats could land in your hair - but they would have to be not listening to where they were going (rather than not looking)
    What I trying to debunk was the myth that is a common occurence. Their aim when they fly close to you is to hoover up all of those annoying midges that form a cloud around your head if you go for a stoll in the evening. The fact that they can catch a midge in flight is testament to their flying skills, so you were obviously unlucky for one to land on you -although personally I'd love it!
    Last year I went to Texas and sat in front of a cave with 40 million bats roosting inside, and didn't get touched once as they all few past

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    Re: Silly Questions? Sensible Answers!

    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    Any more bat related questions?
    If you hold a bat, does it cling on to you or struggle to get away?
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    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    Point taken, bats could land in your hair - but they would have to be not listening to where they were going (rather than not looking)
    What I trying to debunk was the myth that is a common occurence. Their aim when they fly close to you is to hoover up all of those annoying midges that form a cloud around your head if you go for a stoll in the evening. The fact that they can catch a midge in flight is testament to their flying skills, so you were obviously unlucky for one to land on you -although personally I'd love it!
    Last year I went to Texas and sat in front of a cave with 40 million bats roosting inside, and didn't get touched once as they all few past
    Yeah, be careful with that. First thing they do when they wake is evacuate...bleah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmjd View Post
    Because dolphins are air breathers and don't have gills so they can't extract oxygen from water like fish can. Sharks have gills and are thus belong to the fish family.
    Well, that's true, but it isn't the right answer.

    Dolphins are called mammals because they belong to the mammal family. They have wombs and give birth to live offspring and then nurse the offspring. They have lungs, not gills, and their flukes are horizontal rather than having a vertical tail fins; careful examination of the anatomy reveals that they are descended from a land based animal which at some point returned to the ocean and evolved to become re-adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Whales also did this (as did walruses and seals etc.) , though IIRC correctly they are not especially closely related to dolphins. Dolphins have true teeth, unlike sharks, which use adapted scales which grow into enormous teeth and then break off and are replaced by further scales from behind. Sharks are far older, in palaeolontological terms, than dolphins, sharks having been swimming in oceans when the dinosaurs 'roamed' the earth and the ancestor of all mammals was a creature no bigger than a vole...since then the earliest mammal evolved into an animal - I think like a bear? - which then returned to the sea and became the dolphin.

    Question: why is it that dinosaurs always 'roam' the earth?

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    Re: Silly Questions? Sensible Answers!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    If you hold a bat, does it cling on to you or struggle to get away?
    Like any animal, if you act like a moving perch, it's quite happy. If you act like a preditor it will try and get away. (and it's wing claws are quite sharp!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    If you hold a bat, does it cling on to you or struggle to get away?
    Most bats will struggle like fury, as would any wild animal, but seem to calm down very quickly and will often eat quite happily if offered food. The youngsters are calmer, and babies don't care as long as they're warm - as a laydee I tuck baby bats down my bra to carry them round , cheaper than an incubator and nobody's any the wiser...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Yeah, be careful with that. First thing they do when they wake is evacuate...bleah.
    I wore a hat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gojive View Post
    But what happens if you strap the toast butter side up, to the back of a cat, and push it off the worktop?
    The cat lands on its feet, because both effects are working the same way. Now if you strap the toast butter side down on the underside of the cat, you've got a levitation device!

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    Re: Silly Questions? Sensible Answers!

    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    as a laydee I tuck baby bats down my bra to carry them round , cheaper than an incubator and nobody's any the wiser...
    Oo-er missus.

    Um...I wonder if there's a name for that.

    And whether Richard Gere has a thing for struggling bats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Oo-er missus.

    Um...I wonder if there's a name for that.

    And whether Richard Gere has a thing for struggling bats.

    Don't know about RG, but I'd like to show David Tennant my pips!

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