doing report on vampire bats.  need info on predators, diet, biome, habitat, what materials to make home?  Having trouble finding these on a website.
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try national geographic kids
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I would look up animal control, and phone them. They wouldnt rent bats but they may know where you can. Also look up bat rental on the net in your city. Good luck!
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pick up a good book! um, scary people on the internet. Tune into the  Dateline NBC episode, TO Catch a Predator. Apparently some were Yahoo members!
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That is a great question! I hope this helps you:\n\nhttp://www.aresearchguide.com/biomes.html
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http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
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I came across this site when I was looking for insect and spider links.  This guy seemed really involved with Tarantulas.\n\nI am glad that you are concerned about giving your pet a good home.
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I hunted all over.. interesting question.. I found the link for you to browse. I learned some new information I had no idea about as well. Thank you. LL.
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I don't think that cat food would work for a bat.  I think you are supposed to feed them bat food.  \n\nhttp://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/food.htm\n\nhttp://www.bestnest.com/bestnest/lc/lc_bat_faq.asp\n\nHope that helped!  Can I have a snickers bar please?
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I'm also doing an environmental project (school). I found lots of interesting stuff by asking the people around here. Try that but don't say it's your homework or something.
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hey check out this link,it will really help:\n\nhttp://www.extinctanimal.com/prehistoric.htm
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If you want to read peoples reviews on specific Worth bats, or any other brand, go to epinions.com. Check out this link.
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I have not yet, but the website below havse soem good info on Spirit Guides. Whe you go there,  click on "Enter Here" and then scroll down until you see abucnh of topics, and then click on Animal Guides....
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Talk about something your are interested in.  Or something you could find out about and feel passionate about e.g. Why donating bone marrow is a good idea (Put Antony Nolan into google and you will find something.); Christians and Conservation (arocha.org); a place I would like to visit (just put in Cambridge or Kenya etc into Google and you will get lots of info.)
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http://www.birds-of-prey.org/\n\nis a good one
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Vampires are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood. They are also the frequent subject of cinema and fiction, albeit fictional vampires have acquired a set of traits distinct from those of folkloric vampires. In folklore, the term usually refers to the blood-sucking undead of Eastern European legends, but it is often extended to cover similar legendary creatures in other regions and cultures. Vampire characteristics vary widely between different traditions. Some cultures have stories of non-human vampires, such as animals like bats, dogs, and spiders.\n\nVampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person/animal. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another's blood (and/or flesh) has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and it can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs.\n\nIn zoology and botany, the term vampirism is used to refer to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to legendary animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra.\n\nVampire analogies in ancient cultures\n\nTales of the dead craving blood are found in nearly every culture around the world, including some of the most ancient ones. Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are mentioned in early Babylonian demonology, and the bloodsucking Akhkharu even earlier in the Sumerian mythology. These female demons were said to roam during the hours of darkness, hunting and killing newborn babies and pregnant women. One of these demons, named Lilitu, was later adapted into Jewish demonology as Lilith.\n \nThe vetala, like the bat, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemeteries\n\nIn India, tales of the Vetalas, ghoul-like beings that inhabit corpses, are found in old Sanskrit folklore. A prominent story tells of King Vikramāditya and his nightly quests to capture an elusive Vetala. The stories of the Vetala have been compiled in the book Baital Pachisi. The vetala is an undead, who like the bat associated with modern day vampire, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemeteries.\n\nThe hopping corpse is an equivalent of the vampire in Chinese tradition; however, it consumes the victim's life essence rather than blood.\n\nThe Ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet in one myth became full of bloodlust after slaughtering humans and was only sated after drinking alcohol colored as blood.\n\nIn Homer's Odyssey, the shades that Odysseus meets on his journey to the underworld are lured to the blood of freshly sacrificed rams, a fact that Odysseus uses to his advantage to summon the shade of Tiresias.\n\nThe strix, a nocturnal bird that fed on human flesh and blood is mentioned in Roman tales. The Romanian word for vampires, strigoi, is derived from the word, and so is the name of the Albanian Shtriga, but the myths about those creatures show mainly Slavic influence.\n\nAs an example of the existence and prominence of similar legends at later times, it can be noted that 12th century English historians and chroniclers Walter Map and William of Newburgh recorded accounts of revenants that arguably bear some resemblance to East European vampires.\n\nThe vampire myth as we know it is most strongly rooted in East European and above all Slavic folklore , where vampires were revenants accused of killing people, often by drinking blood, but also by throttling, or sitting on them and preventing breathing. A vampire could be destroyed by cutting off its head, by driving a wooden stake into its h
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What a cool project!  So to answer one of your questions, the crucial distinction among your phyla will be whether or not they're chordates -- which of course includes the vertebrates (but also some invertebrates such as sea squirts and certain worms).  \n\nSo your bipedal wolf (I'm assuming the missing d was a typo, but if "bipeal" is a word from your universe, please let me know) would be phylum chordata, class vertebrata, order mammalia, family canidae, genus canus, species lupus bipedalis (and I'm envisioning something like a cross between Lawrence Talbot and Speaker-to-Animals, without retractible claws).  But that's just off the top of my head.\n\nOne thing I've discussed with my ten-year-old son is the absence of hexapod vertebrates -- e.g. flying horses, winged dragons, etc.  If you were closer, I'd invite you over for coffee and an all-day discussion of where to classify them, and how they evolved.  Since all terrestrial vertebrates have essentially the same structure, it's clear they all shared a common ancestor which makes hexapodal vertebrates, sadly, impossible in our known universe -- so was there a hexapodal (imaginary) marine vertebrate who also scuttled across the floors of silent seas before crawling out of the surf and saying "Hey, the carcharodons can't get me here!  Kewl!"?  ...Which of course suggests all sorts of hexapodal marine vertebrates that shared the same skeletal architecture.  Ooooh, fun.\n\nAnd the final question... so zoology is the study of animals.  There's also cryptozoology, which I've described flippantly as "the study of imaginary animals."  But of course, it's more technically the study of animals that may or may not exist.  So what would we call your zoology, which is the study of animals you've intentionally invented?  Oh, of course, poeiazoology (-poeia, meaing to construct -- as in mythopoeia, the term Tolkien invented to describe the invention of mythologies.)\n\nAnd on that note, elen sila lumen omentielvo!
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http://www.emmadavies.net/vampire/  That is a vampire name generator.  Gives you the name and what it means.  Have fun!