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Bats, the only mammals that fly, are among nature's least understood and unfairly maligned creatures. They are extremely valuable animals, responsible for consuming huge numbers of insects and pollinating and dispersing the seeds of...

A reference to the bird-like, nocturnal mammal, usually applied to a woman as ‘you old bat’, implying that she is repulsive. ‘You old bag’ would be roughly synonymous. In A Salute to the Great McCarthy, by Barry Oakley,...

The acronym for Best Available Techniques. It is a method used principally in systems of pollution control to ensure that the most effective means of control are applied or introduced by the operator of a business but balancing the cost to the operator...

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How do you feel about bats? Perhaps you have heard expressions like - "blind as a bat," "bats in the belfry," or "ding-bat." Bats are interesting and unusual animals that are often misunderstood. Bat Facts Although bats can fly, they are...

Has the tobacco sectors rally finally run out of puff? Recent profit warnings from world number one Philip Morris of the US and its domestic rival RJ Reynolds have raised doubts over the industrys resilience in a recession. But the cigarette price...

The collision of an aluminum bat and a baseball produces a distinctive "ping," a sound of summer heard on youth ballfields across the country. But a small though vocal contingent of lawmakers, coaches and parents have tried to drown out the "ping" with calls to...

Dave Waldien stretches, shining his helmet's light into a limestone crevice. "I've got two," he says. "One's a big brown ... and I'm not sure what that one is." Stepping across a few of the cave's boulders, Jim Kennedy takes a look.It's a northern myotis,...