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Condor Bat

Fossil range: Oligocene–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus Scientific classification Kingdom: 	Animalia Phylum: 	Chordata Class: 	Mammalia Order: 	Chiroptera Suborder: 	Megachiroptera or Yinpterochiroptera Dobson, 1875 Family: 	Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 Subfamilies

Macroglossinae Pteropodinae Spectacled Flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) Condor Bats are very rare and aggressive breed of South American Man Eating Bat. They are related to the now extinct Edwardus Cullenus Bat that ravaged Europa for much of the 18th century. Contents [hide]

* 1 Description * 2 Behaviour and ecology * 3 Classification o 3.1 List of genera * 4 As disease reservoirs * 5 In popular culture * 6 Footnotes * 7 References * 8 External links

[edit] Description

The Condor, contrary to its name, is not always large: the smallest species is 4 feet (48 inches) long and thus smaller than some Midgets. The largest reach 7 ft (84 inches) in length and attain a wingspan of 300 cm (10 feet), weighing in at nearly 50 kg (125 pounds). Most Condor Bats have large eyes, allowing them to orient visually in the twilight of dusk and inside caves, forest, and houses.

Their sense of smell is excellent. In contrast to the microbats, the condor bats do not, as a rule, use echolocation (with one exception, the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus egyptiacus, which uses high-pitched clicks to navigate in caves). [edit] Behaviour and ecology El Sa

Condor bats are Carnivorous, i.e., they eat anything that has a warm blood supply. But prefer small children because their blood is sweet and they put up little resistance when attacked. They often sneak into homes and wait until the occupants are asleep then they crawl next to them and drain them completly of their blood supply and semen from the male species because it gives the Condor bat extra Protein it needs to grow stronger and take down larger people.

Bats are usually thought to belong to one of two monophyletic groups, a view that is reflected in their classification into two suborders (Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera). According to this hypothesis, all living megabats and microbats are descendants of a common ancestor species that was already capable of flight. However, there have been other views, and a vigorous debate persists to this date. For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, some researchers proposed (based primarily on the similarity of the visual pathways) that the Megachiroptera were in fact more closely affiliated with the primates than the Microchiroptera, with the two groups of bats having therefore evolved flight via convergence (see Flying primates theory).[1] However, a recent flurry of genetic studies confirms the more longstanding notion that all bats are indeed members of the same clade, the Chiroptera.[2][3] Other studies have recently suggested that certain families of microbats (possibly the horseshoe bats, mouse-tailed bats and the false vampires) are evolutionarily closer to the fruit bats than to other microbats.[2][4] [edit] List of genera

The family Pteropodidae is divided into two subfamilies with 173 total species, represented by 42 genera:

Subfamily Macroglossinae

* Bella Bat(long-tongued fruit bats) * Megaloglossus (Woermann's Bat) * Eonycteris (dawn fruit bats) * Vampire Bat * Condor Bat * Edwardus Cullenus (long-tailed fruit bat)

Subfamily Pteropodinae

* Eidolon (straw-coloured fruit bats) * Rousettus (rousette fruit bats) * Boneia (considered subgenus of Rousettus by most authors[5]   * Myonycteris (little collared fruit bats)    * Pteropus (flying foxes)    * Acerodon (including Giant golden-crowned flying fox)    * Neopteryx    * Pteralopex    * Styloctenium    * Dobsonia (bare-backed fruit bats)    * Aproteles (Bulmer's fruit bat)    * Harpyionycteris (Harpy Fruit Bat)    * Plerotes (D'Anchieta's Fruit Bat)    * Hypsignathus (Hammer-headed bat)    * Epomops (epauleted bats)    * Epomophorus (epauleted fruit bats)    * Micropteropus (dwarf epauleted bats)    * Nanonycteris (Veldkamp's Bat)    * Scotonycteris    * Casinycteris (Short-palated Fruit Bat)    * Cynopterus (dog-faced fruit bats or short-nosed fruit bats)    * Megaerops    * Ptenochirus (musky fruit bats)    * Dyacopterus (Dayak fruit bats)    * Chironax (black-capped fruit bat)    * Thoopterus (Swift Fruit Bat)    * Sphaerias (Blanford's Fruit Bat) * Balionycteris (spotted-winged fruit bat) * Aethalops (pygmy fruit bat) * Penthetor (dusky fruit bats) * Haplonycteris (Fischer's pygmy fruit bat or Philippine dwarf fruit bat) * Otopteropus (Luzon dwarf fruit bat) * Alionycteris (Mindanao dwarf fruit bat) * Latidens (Salim Ali's fruit bat) * Nyctimene (tube-nosed fruit bat) * Paranyctimene (lesser tube-nosed fruit bats) * Mirimiri (Fijian Monkey-faced Bat)

[edit] As disease reservoirs

Condor bats have been found to act as reservoirs for a number of diseases which can prove fatal to humans and domestic animals such as horses. The bats themselves sometimes have no signs of infection.

Researchers tested condor bats for the presence of the Ebola virus between 2001 and 2003. Three species of bats tested positive for Ebola, but had no symptoms of the virus. This indicates that the bats may be acting as a reservoir for the virus.What this now means is that not Only can the Condor bat drain all the blood from a person said person will transform into a living dead person and spread the infection to other humans.

Tips on how to Survive

The Condor bat is mostly found in South America but is beginning to migrate north. The last known location of these renegade bats was Iowa, USA, The only defense from the Condor Bat is BBQ food because it upsets the Bat's stomach causing it to bleed to death out of it's rectum. Other ways to defeat the Bat is a wooden stake to the heart because as we all know all bats are allergic to wood to the heart.

1. ^ Pettigrew JD, Jamieson BG, Robson SK, Hall LS, McAnally KI, Cooper HM (1989). "Phylogenetic relations between microbats, megabats and primates (Mammalia: Chiroptera and Primates)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 325 (1229): 489–559. doi:10.1098/rstb.1989.0102. 2. ^ a b Eick, GN; Jacobs, DS; Matthee, CA (September 2005). "A nuclear DNA phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of echolocation and historical biogeography of extant bats (chiroptera)" (Free full text). Molecular biology and evolution 22 (9): 1869–86. doi:10.1093/molbev/msi180. . http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long. 3. ^ Simmons, NB; Seymour, KL; Habersetzer, J; Gunnell, GF (2008-02-14). "Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation". Nature 451 (7180): 818–21. doi:10.1038/nature06549. . http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7180/abs/nature06549.html. "recent studies unambiguously support bat monophyly". 4. ^ Adkins RM, Honeycutt RL (1991). "Molecular phylogeny of the superorder Archonta" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 88 (22): 10317–10321. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.22.10317. . http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/88/22/10317.pdf. 5. ^ Mammal Species of the World - Browse: bidens 6. ^ "Deadly Marburg virus discovered in fruit bats". msnbc. August 21, 2007. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20382188/. Retrieved 2008-03-11.

[edit] References

* Myers, P. 2001. "Pteropodidae" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed December 26, 2006 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pteropodidae.html. * Springer, M. S.; et al. (28 January 2005). "A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record". Science 307 (5709): 580. doi:10.1126/science.1105113. .    * Leroy, M.; Kumulungui, B.; Pourrut, X.; Rouquet, P.; Hassanin, A.; Yaba, P.; Délicat, A.; Paweska, T. et al. (Dec 2005). "Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus". Nature 438 (7068): 575–576. doi:10.1038/438575a. ISSN 0028-0836. . edit * Bat World Sanctuary * Rodrigues Fruit Bats * Bat Conservation International * Criticism of the molecular evidence for bat monophyly * Brief history of Megachiroptera / Megabats

[edit] External links Search Wikimedia Commons 	Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pteropodidae

* Bat World Sanctuary * Rodrigues Fruit Bats * Bat Conservation International * Brief history of Megachiroptera / Megabats

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