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The toothy, hungry bats have long, nearlytransparent bunny-like ears and wrinkled,wolfy faces with a lance-shaped nose leaf—an ...

them outside the temple in soft, white cottonbags to weigh and measure them. Four weremale, and two female, one pregnant. To lea ...

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After collecting data and genetic samples froma woolly bat, biologist Rodrigo Medellín (at left)and researcher Ivar Vleut will ...

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Casting a shadow on the ruins of a temple at thearchaeological site of Hormiguero, a woolly false vam-pire bat returns to its ro ...

origin myth, Popol Vuh.” In that tale the Mayahero twins are placed inside a “bat house”—acave filled with death bats, c ...

encountered one in 2009. “They’re very rare,and I knew nothing about them,” he said as wehiked along a trail. Once he trap ...

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Latinos came toWilder, Idaho, asmigrant farmworkersin the second halfof the 20th century;today they’re 76 per-cent of the popu ...

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He lived with his grandparents in a home builton land where his grandfather, a Vietnam Warveteran, once picked beets and onions. ...

town,” Fernandez explained to some of theout-of-town reporters who visited. “Early in themorning and late in the evening, no ...

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Ceremonial dancingis part of the Anahua-calmecac InternationalUniversity Preparatory’sgraduation-day cele-bration in downtownL ...

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